Booklet containing the agenda for Cardiff New Synagogue's Annual General Meeting, Cardiff, 12 April 1973

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Booklet containing the agenda for the Annual General Meeting of Cardiff New (now Reform) Synagogue on 12 April 1973. The agenda laid out includes minutes, correspondence, warden's report, treasurer's report, adoption of accounts development fund, motion to increase council membership to 18, election of two wardens, a chairman and council members. Also included in the agenda is annual subscriptions, appointment of auditors, Chevrah Kadishah, Ladies' Guild, and youth groups. It also celebrates the congregation's 25th Anniversary.

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]

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.

• http://cardiffreformsynagogue.uk/ (link opens in new window)