Minutes of the meeting at Cardiff New (now Reform) Synagogue, Cardiff, held on 17 November 1985. Mr Malcolm Abraham is recorded as being the chair. Rabbi Jonathan Magonet, principal of the Leo Baeck College and Mr Geoffrey Rose Chairman of the Leo Baeck College are recorded as visiting. The meeting discusses communication between the College and the Synagogue and ways to improve it in the future. The meeting shared more information about the College, the course it provided, its funding and the students who tended to enrol for the courses.

The Cardiff Reform Synagogue was founded in 1948 as the Cardiff New Synagogue. The following year, it became a constituent member of the Movement for Reform Judaism. Born in reaction against the more restrictive traditions of the Orthodox Judaism of Cardiff Hebrew Congregation, such as the prohibition of driving on the Sabbath and the ban on interfaith marriages, the new Synagogue appealed to the immigrants who had fled the war-torn Europe, where the Reform movement was already well-established. The congregation worships in a converted Methodist Chapel on Moira Terrace they acquired in 1952.

Sources:

JCR-UK: Jewish Communities & Records, Cardiff Reform Synagogue, Cardiff, Wales (2020) https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/card1/index.htm [accessed 14 March 2024]

Parry-Jones, Cai, The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales (doctoral thesis, Bangor University, 2014)
https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/20579001/null [14 March 2024]

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