Booklet and poster for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Cardiff New Synagogue, Cardiff, 1998

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A booklet and poster for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Cardiff New Synagogue held at the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff on 28 November 1998. The poster details that the event will be Black Tie and that tickets will cost £25. The booklet contains a list of speeches and toasts to be made. Included is a menu.

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.