Invitation to the annual Communal Seder of the Cardiff New Synagogue, Cardiff, April 1950

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An invitation to the members of the Cardiff New Synagogue to attend the annual Communal Seder which was held on 2 April 1950. The invitation includes the price of the meal, as well as an R.S.V.P. slip.

Note regarding the date: The document refers to 'Sunday, April 2nd' as 'the second night of Passover'. It provides no year of the event, but the only time the Passover started on a Saturday, 1 April, since the Cardiff Reform Synagogue has been established, was in 1950 (cf. http://jaysage.org/Passover_Dates.pdf).

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).

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.