Minutes of the Senior Advisory Committee to the Youth Groups, Cardiff New (now Reform) Synagogue, Cardiff, 29 April 1982. It includes those present as Rabbi K. L. Cohen, Mrs A. Green, Mrs J. Hermer, Messrs W. Pollock, M. Green, N. Berg, L. Bernstein and S. Unger. It discusses the Youth Group, attendance of meetings with meetings usually being held on Saturday evenings at Moira Terrace. It discusses holding a general meeting to which all Jewish youth in Cardiff would be invited and electing a committee.

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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