Letter from the Jewish League of Women, Cardiff Branch, to Simon Masters, Cardiff New Synagogue, Cardiff, 16 April 2002

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Letter from the Jewish League of Women, Cardiff Branch, to Simon Masters, Cardiff New (now Reform) Synagogue, Cardiff, 16 April 2002. The letter regards the future of the day centre for elderly members of the community, providing once a week a good meal and opportunity for social contact with attendance at the sessions growing. The letter asks if the Jewish League of Women would be able to use the Bogod Hall and kitchen.

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.

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