Order of Service pamphlet for the Consecration of the New Synagogue at Moira Terrace, Cardiff, 1952

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This pamphlet is for the Order of Service for the Consecration of the Synagogue Building at Moira Terrace. This was the new location of Cardiff Reform (New) Synagogue and took place on 14 September 1952. The service was officiated by Rabbi L. Gerhard Graf and Rabbi Harold F Reinhart D.D.
Underneath the date of the event, the date is written in accordance with the Hebrew Calendar.

On the back of the pamphlet there is a logo of where it was printed; Robert Davies & Co - Tony Pandy.

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:
'The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales' by Cai Parry-Jones (http://e.bangor.ac.uk/4987);
JCR-UK/JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/card1/index.htm);
'Jewish Calendar' (www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm).

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.