Thank you to our customers, sponsors, and volunteers who contributed to the success of a wonderful 18th annual Corned Beef on Rye - Sure to Satisfy Fundraiser at the Temple! 

We sold 1,550 corned beef meals and 200 whole Hebrew National kosher salamis!

Sixty-eight individuals and businesses sponsored our sale, the Temple's largest annual fundraiser! And some 100 volunteers worked together to make sandwiches, scoop coleslaw, wrap giant dill pickles, and package brownies!

We have available aprons and caps with our corned beef logo for sale for $18 each. They make great holiday gifts!

The music of European Reform synagogues in the years leading up to the Holocaust will be highlighted during the Violins of Hope Shabbat service on Friday, November 15 at 7 p.m. at the Temple.

The service will be led by Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig and Cantor Yvon F. Shore with the Temple’s Hazemir Choir under the direction of Dr. John Planer. A quartet of musicians including Temple members Betsy Gephart and David Rezits will be playing the Violins of Hope. 

Together we will observe a memorial to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which unleashed the public state-supported attacks against the Jews which culminated in the murder of six million souls during the Holocaust. Thank you to the Dr. Harry W. Salon Foundation for its support. Many thanks to Maureen Grinsfelder and Micki Kepes for coordinating the Oneg Shabbat.

In addition, Rabbi Winnig will join Bishop Kevin Rhoades for a Jewish-Catholic Prayer Service on Wednesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church.

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

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.