We welcome you to Congregation Achduth Vesholom as we begin the New Year 5779! 

Please join us for upcoming holiday events and stop by the Social Hall to see the traveling art exhibit called “The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat.”

• Sunday, September 23 - We'll decorate the Sukkah at 11 a.m. in the courtyard of the Madge Rothschild Resource Center, followed by a pizza lunch. At 12:30 p.m., we'll sing-along with the movie version of Fiddler on the Roof. Please RSVP by Friday, September 21. Lunch is $5 per person.
• Friday, September 28 -  Shake the lulav and inhale the scent of the etrog during our Sukkot service at 7 p.m.
• Friday, October 5 - Shabbat Katan for children in first grade and under begins at 6 p.m. with a focus on Simchat Torah.
• Friday, October 5 - We need your help to unroll a Torah scroll around the Sanctuary during our service at 7 p.m. Join us to parade with our sacred scrolls in celebration of Simchat Torah. We'll finish Deuteronomy and start the annual cycle of Torah with Genesis, led by Rabbi Lenny. An Oneg Shabbat follows hosted by Jessica & Roger Ash in honor of their son Samuel's Bar Mitzvah on Saturday morning, October 6.

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 Lenny Sarko, 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 are excited to host a traveling art exhibit this fall at the Temple called “The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat” from the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion Museum. The collection includes 36 works, including photography, textile, collage and painting, all exploring some aspect of Shabbat. Created by a variety of international artists, the artworks and ritual objects represent a diverse, 21st-century, approach to this day of rest.

The exhibit will be on display in the Social Hall from September through November. Members are invited whenever the building is open. We’ll have weekly hours for the public to visit on Thursday afternoons from 1 to 3 p.m. beginning September 13, and other hours available for groups by appointment. Thank you to the Dr. Harry W. Salon Foundation for its support.

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.

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