A promotional booklet for the Remembrance Sunday Dinner, organised in aid of the Jewish Home for the Aged, which was to be held at Sherman Hall in Penylan on 8 November 1981. At the top of the cover is the logo for the Cardiff branch of the Association of Jewish ex-servicemen and women (A.J.E.X.). This is a group dedicated to the remembrance of Jewish men and women who had lost their lives serving with the "armed forces of the crown". Annually (since 1930), A.J.E.X. holds a parade and ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London and maintain the Jewish National War Memorial at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire. The cover also details Mr Leo Abse, MP as the guest speaker. A later page of this booklet provided information about Abse: he was born in Cardiff, served in the R.A.F. throughout World War Two and went on to be elected as chairman of the Cardiff City Labour Party in 1952 and represented Pontypool in Parliament. He sponsored Bills on Divorce, Homosexuality and family planning.

Throughout the booklet, there are many advertisements for local businesses. To name a few, there were advertisements for Bermina Sewing Machines, R.P. Joinery, Sidney Owen (Chemists) LTD and Jack Fletcher, Property Buyers and Sellers, all of which were based in Cardiff. There were also businesses from further afield such as Fiona Footwear Limited of Bridgend.

One of the pages in the booklet gives information about Mr Leslie Munitz, who had served A.J.E.X. for over 25 years, having fought in the Second World War and was always quick to make contact with Jewish communities wherever he was in the world. He recorded lots of his interactions with them in Cajex magazine.
The booklet also features a list of sponsors (a mixture of individuals and companies) and gives the addresses and telephone numbers of the companies. All of the companies were based in Cardiff with the exception of M. Boxer and Sons LTD from London and Just Joyce's Nearly New Agency from Birchgrove. On the adjacent page is a menu and a list of toasts, which includes toasts made by Munitz and Abse. On the back cover of the booklet is an advertisement for F.W. Morgan LTD, a Cardiff-based company described as 'Timber Merchants, General Builders' Merchants'.

Pencare (formerly known as 'The Trustees of Penylan House') is a charity, which offers care for elderly people of the Jewish faith and is currently based in Cardiff, although the catchment area for the home covers South Wales and the West of England. Pencare has been working with Linc Cymru to redevelop their care home, Penylan House, to ensure high quality care to Cardiff's elderly Jewish community and extending the care to elderly people not of the Jewish faith.

Mr Henry Silver and other members of the community had originally founded a Home for the Aged in 1946 in Canton, which then moved to Penarth, its official opening being 5 December 1948, to provide a larger space for its large number of applications. Despite the beautiful surroundings, the Home in Penarth was quite isolated so the difficult decision was later taken to move the Home to Penylan Road in Cardiff, meaning many residents were now closer to their friends and relatives. Residents moved to Penylan House in 1959.

Sources:
https://www.jewishlegacy.org.uk/charities/ajex/;
http://opencharities.org/charities/243968 http://www.housingcare.org/downloads/facilities/generated-brochures/134….;
Cajex, Magazine of the Association of Jewish Ex-service Men and Women (Cardiff), Vol.IX, No.1, Ninth Year - March, 1959, pp. 60- 65.

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.