The balance sheet and accounts for the Newport Hebrew Congregation dated 31 October 1956. This document includes the dates and times for the general, trustees, and council meetings, with a three point agenda to follow. A comment box directs members to new payment recipients, stating a final list will circulate once completed. The liabilities and assets follow, with the income and expenditure accounts covered. A statement for the members' subscriptions, donations, and offerings expands across two pages, using a letter based key to highlight the status of certain paid expenses. The balance of the General Charities Fund is detailed, with the offerings and plot reservations made available adjacently. On the last page, the Orphan Aid Society, the Cemetery Care Account, the Board of Guardians, the Board of Deputies, the Building Repairs Fund, and the Chevra Kedisha Fund each have their balances totalled.

Newport Monmouthshire Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1859 by orthodox Jews meeting at a temporary synagogue in Llanarth Street. A synagogue at Francis Street was opened in 1869 and consecrated by the Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler in 1871. In 1934 the congregation moved to the Nathan Harris Memorial Hall in Queen’s Hill which was converted to a synagogue. In 1997 this synagogue was closed, and the congregation moved to the Prayer House by the Jewish Burial Ground on Risca Road. Within 20 years the congregation had dwindled to a few members able to attend and this too had ceased to hold services.

Sources:
“History of our Shul. The First Hundred Years", published by Newport Congregation in 1959;
Oral history interviews with members of the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation, recorded in 2018 by JHASW.

Depository: Gwent Archives.