Long-time Temple member Betty Edlavitch Stein, 102, died on August 9, 2019 at her home in Fort Wayne. Find the obituary. We offer our condolences to Betty's family.

Her contributions as a community activist, educator, and writer are numerous. We especially are grateful for Betty's dedication to our congregation. She was the first woman to be elected to the Temple's board of directors in May 1956 and the first to be elected president of Achduth Vesholom's board in 1984. She also served as long-time chair of the Holocaust Education Committee. In celebration of her 100th birthday in 2016, the Temple's Rabbi Richard B. Safran Library received more than 100 new titles donated in her honor by family and friends through a special "Betty's 100 Books" tribute. 

Betty also will be recognized on Sunday, August 25 as a Hoosier Jewish Legend, established by the Indiana Jewish Historical Society as a Hall of Fame celebrating Hoosiers who have created a significant and lasting impact to their profession, faith-based and/or secular community.

May her memory be for a blessing.

We're very pleased to welcome Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig, our new spiritual leader for the coming year! She'll lead Friday services at 6:15 p.m. through August 30. Our fall schedule begins on September 6 when most services will begin at 7:30 p.m.

We also welcome members of Congregation B'nai Jacob to our Temple family as new congregants! We're excited to come together as one congregation with two traditions and creating new ways to grow Jewishly.

Our worship options have expanded to include a new traditional Shabbat morning service on Saturdays at 9:15 a.m. at the Temple. All are welcome to attend this lay-led service.

We welcome you to Congregation Achduth Vesholom, where we’ve been building Jewish community since 1848. As Indiana’s oldest Jewish congregation, we have a long tradition of bringing together those who want to share the joy of Judaism. 

Under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig, we offer many opportunities for worship, learning, social action, culture, and friendship. A charter member of the Union for Reform Judaism, our congregation is warmly open to the traditional riches of the Jewish past, while continuously looking for ways to build a creative and meaningful future.

Our name means "unity and peace." We are truly a family at the Temple. We support one another in times of difficulty, share life’s blessings at times of joy, and work together to bring about tikkun olam, the betterment of the world around us.

Please visit our congregation and our beautiful Rifkin Campus at 5200. Find out how to become a member of our Temple family. Learn about our Religious School.

We welcome visitors to the Madge Rothschild Resource Center, home of the Rabbi Richard B. Safran Library and the Goldman Memorial Museum (currently under development). Our Rifkin Campus at 5200 Old Mill Road is home to Congregation Achduth Vesholom, the Madge Rothschild Resource Center, the Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne, PFW's Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Fort Wayne Jewish Cemetery Association, and Brightpoint Head Start. Find out more.

We're scheduling drop-in games in the Madge Rothschild Resource Center. Please sign up to join us! 

If you'd like to receive periodic emails about  mah jongg play, please contact the Temple office at office@templecav.org or (260) 744-4245. Find out more about Mah Jongg resources in the Resource Center collection.

On November 9-24, the Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic will host Violins of Hope, a community-wide collaboration of music, visual art, theater, public conversation, interfaith dialogue, reading, and educational presentations designed to commemorate the DEFIANCE, RESILIENCE, AND LEGACY of those who were affected or silenced by Nazi Germany. Find out more.