Cardiff New Synagogue Annual General Meeting, Cardiff, 1955

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A publication issued for the Annual General Meeting of the Cardiff New Synagogue, which took place on 27 February 1955. The document refers to the year 1954 and includes the agenda for AGM, council attendances during previous year, warden's report, revenue account for the year ended 31 December 1954 and balance sheet as of 31 December 1954, treasurer's report, and report from the Minister, Rabbi Graf.

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.