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October 14, 2024, 4:27 pm

South Welsh Jewish community ‘deeply disturbed’ as Plaid Cymru calls for arms ban

All four of its MPs also called for a sporting and economic boycott over the war in Gaza in a vote at the party's conference on Saturday

By Michelle Rosenberg

February 21, 2024, 4:43 pm

Massive turn out for Merthyr Tydfil synagogue open day

'Palpable excitement' as Foundation for Jewish Heritage throws open the doors of planned Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre

By Michelle Rosenberg

First premises at 21 High St, Bangor. The family lived over the shop. Picture shared by were shared by Michael Manson, with whom the Jewish History Association of South Wales recorded an oral history interview.

November 27, 2023, 1:56 pm

Heritage project to research wider stories of Jewish Welsh communities

Six-month research task to preserve and share Jewish heritage in the mid, west and north of Wales following the success of similar project in the south

By Michelle Rosenberg

Suitcase featuring the minute books of the Cardiff Ladies’ Sewing Society (1926-1947) and Cardiff United Synagogue Ladies’ Guild (1952-1991)

September 14, 2023, 11:14 am

Discovered in a suitcase: 19th century records of south Wales Jewish community

Researchers excited by the historical find which includes documents and photographs soon to be made available online

By Michelle Rosenberg

First Minister receiving commissioned artwork from Michael Mail

August 4, 2023, 10:51 am

Welsh first minister visits Merthyr Synagogue Heritage Centre project

"A great pleasure, " says Mark Drakeford during meet with Foundation of Jewish Heritage, the charity behind plans to present the 250+ year history, culture and contribution of the Welsh Jewish community

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 17, 2023, 6:09 pm

Teaching tolerance through the stories of Wales’ Kindertransport stories

To date, more than 100 oral histories have been recorded, "all of them are urgent and relevant; these are declining communities so it's a race against time."

By Michelle Rosenberg

A family completing their Census form online

January 30, 2023, 11:30 am

Median age of person identifying as Jewish in England and Wales is 41 years old

Newly published results from the 2021 Census in England and Wales confirm more women identifying as Jews in England than males

By Lee Harpin

January 27, 2023, 4:10 pm

Project manager hired to lead restoration of historic Merthyr synagogue

Neil Richardson, who is overseeing plans for a Welsh Jewish Heritage centre on site, says Jewish experiences in Wales are valued and celebrated

By Michelle Rosenberg

Irene Kirstein Watts, a Kindertransport refugee, in 1937, aged 6.

Image from Irene Kirstein Watts’s interview from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, 1998. For more information: http://sfi.usc.edu/.

January 24, 2023, 10:14 am

Children taught about Holocaust through eyes of Welsh child refugees

Free teaching materials built around video testimonies from child refugees who came to Wales in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution.

By Michelle Rosenberg

July 7, 2022, 5:22 pm

Foundation celebrates nearly £400,000 for Merthyr Tydfil synagogue

Lottery and Welsh government funds will allow development of the increasingly dilapidated building

By JTA

May 31, 2022, 3:36 pm

Huw Edwards joins Merthyr Tydfil historic synagogue’s Jewish heritage project

BBC presenter tells Jewish News: “I am honoured to be a patron of this exciting project to preserve and bring back into use the striking grade II listed Victorian synagogue.”

By Toby Porter

November 4, 2019, 10:12 am

South Wales community gets £54,200 lottery grant to trace Shoah victims’ stories

Project seeks to create 'a digital Cardiff Jewish heritage trail' to archive the history of the long-established but dwindling community

By Jewish News Reporter

Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue (Credit: Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

September 23, 2019, 2:40 pm

OPINION: A synagogue in the valleys will tell Welsh Jews’ story

Founder and Chief Executive of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage, Michael Mail, reflects on the purchase of an historic shul in Merthyr Tydfil

By Michael Mail

July 19, 2019, 10:15 am

‘From Holyhead to Wrexham’, academic in bid to save north Wales’ Jewish heritage

Professor Nathan Abrams is crowdfunding to preserve the community's 'disappearing' history of the region, with walks, a self-guided map, a digital app and travelling exhibitions

By Jewish News Reporter

Annual day outing of the Rapport company. (Credit: JHAW, courtesy of Philip Kaye)

July 1, 2019, 3:03 pm

Charity fights to preserve memory of Wales’ fading Jewish life

Thousands of Jews once lived in villages dotted around south Wales, but the 250-year-old community risks disappearing entirely

By Mathilde Frot

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