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The letter is from the Jewish National Fund to Mr Pinnick, the headmaster of the Newport Hebrew Classes at the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation. It congratulates Mr Pinnick and his class for winning the Welsh Flag in their Degel Yerushalayim Competition.
The Jewish National Fund was established in 1901 with the purpose to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. Their work includes planting trees, developing green spaces and water conservation in Israel.
Newport Monmouthshire Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1859 by orthodox Jews meeting at a temporary synagogue in Llanarth Street. A synagogue at Francis Street was opened in 1869 and consecrated by the Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler in 1871. In 1934 the congregation moved to their Nathan Harris Memorial Hall in Queen's Hill which was converted to a synagogue. In 1997 this synagogue was closed, and the congregation moved to their Prayer House by the Jewish Burial Ground on Risca Road. Within 20 years the congregation had dwindled to a few members able to attend and this too had ceased to hold services.
Sources:
"History of our Shul. The First Hundred Years", published by Newport Congregation in 1959;
Oral history interviews with members of the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation, recorded in 2018 by JHASW.
"Our work to support the land and people of Israel," webpage on https://www.jnf.org/menu-2/our-work
Depository: Gwent Archives.
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