Revised draft of the Laws Of The Cardiff New Synagogue, Cardiff

Description

Final draft of the Laws of the Cardiff New (now Reform) Synagogue submitted by M. A. Bogod, P. J. Bogod, M. Golten, S. Issacs and Proffessor L. A. Moritz. It covers topics from forms of services, days and times of public worship to duty and appointment, removal, investments of trustees. It also covers membership restrictions, applications, burial scheme, subscription, consideration of applications to council and honorary officers. It also covers births, marriages and deaths as well as alteration of laws and adoption of the new laws.

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)