The synagogue offers facilities for daily services and educational programmes, and PHC also houses a library, a mikveh and a bookshop.

The project was to "design and erect a perimeter security fence complete with access controls around the premises of the Perth Synagogue".

[15] The new synagogue was completed in 1974 and officially opened in August of that year, in the presence of air commodore Hughie Edwards and premier, Charles Court.

[19] The decision to move the synagogue was due to factors such as the previous building being in a poor state of repair and requiring significant investment.

Rabbi Themal attended the Royal Commission on Human Relationships where he supported the end of the criminalisation of homosexuality.

[22] However, in 1979, the PHC rabbi emeritus, Louis Rubin-Zachs made history when he addressed congregants at Temple David.

He told the congregation that in addressing them he was honouring the late Brigadier Philip Masel, a member of both PHC and Temple David.

[23] In 1980, both PHC and Temple David coordinated Jewish courses at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education as part of its community programs.

[24] In 1989, Rabbi Dovid Freilich, distanced the congregation from reports[25] of a rift between established members and recent immigrants from South Africa.

[27] In March 1992, Jonathan Sacks, on his first Australian tour as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth arrived in Perth to mark the centenary of the PHC.

"[28] Sacks also praised Rabbi Coleman, quoting a radio interviewer that he was the "Jewish community's greatest contribution to the life of Western Australia.