L'shana Tovah! Please join us when we welcome the New Year 5781 online as a community, gathering together to hear the sound of the shofar and offering prayers for renewal, forgiveness, good health, and peace.

We’ll share Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur via livestream to maintain the safety of our Temple family while also embracing the opportunity to experience the holidays in new and significant ways. Both Reform and traditional worship options will available for a second year. Erev Rosh Hashanah begins on Friday evening, September 18. Find the schedule

Rabbi Meir Bargeron will lead Reform worship with Cantor Yvon F. Shore and Maestro Robert Nance. Cantor Shore, Director of Liturgical Arts and Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, also joined us last year for the High Holy Days.

Returning to lead our traditional services is Michael Small, who previously served as the guest spiritual leader for the holidays at Congregation B’nai Jacob. Ron Friedman, who regularly leads our Shabbat morning service, and Pamela Friedman, our Religious School Principal, also will be our service leaders.

Only the clergy, service leaders, and a very small number of support personnel will be in the building, and they will be taking all appropriate precautions. This will allow us to offer a worship experience from the bimah and our familiar sacred spaces, as well as follow distancing guidelines. We will not hold any in-person services either in our Sanctuary or Goldstine-B’nai Jacob Chapel.

Links to access livestreaming will be sent to members via email prior to the High Holy Days. Friends of the Temple who receive our weekly email update also will receive the links. We warmly welcome guests - please contact the Temple office at (260) 744-4245 or office@templecav.org for more information.

Learn more about holiday plans:

• Becoming a "sponsor" for the High Holy Days
• How Temple members may borrow machzorim (holiday prayer books)
• High Holy Days Food Drive
• Drive-in Shofar and Tashlich services
• Virtual Break-the-Fast
• Thoughtful Thursdays Apple Project fundraiser
• Visit our Facebook page for reflections during the month of Elul

Thank you for your continued support of the Temple during the past several months as we navigate these difficult times. We continue to be cautious in our plans to re-open the Rifkin Campus as we monitor recommendations from health and government officials, as well as consider feedback from our members.

The Temple's leadership has made the difficult decision to keep our building closed until further notice. At the same time, it's very important to us to stay conected as a congregational community. We hope you will join us online for worship services, classes, and other programming.

Please know we are planning a phased re-opening. Right now, the Rabbi and staff have resumed essential work in the building. We are not open for services, classes, meetings, or routine congregant or visitor business. All Temple meetings are being held virtually.

We will continue to keep our members updated regularly. Please also check for information on our website and our congregational Facebook page.

Temple office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact us at (260) 744-4245 or office@templecav.org. 

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 Meir Bargeron, 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 when we re-open. Find out how to become a member of our Temple family. Learn about our Religious School.