Kol Nidre Service

11 Oct @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

G’mar Chatima Tovah (May you be sealed)! We wish you an easy fast. Please join us for Erev Yom Kippur services on Friday, October 11 at 8 p.m. in the Sanctuary when we gather as a community, with both Reform and Conservative minyanim worshiping together as one congregation for Kol Nidre. (Mincha begins at 7:15 p.m. in the Goldstine-B’nai Jacob Chapel, led by guest Hazzan Penny Myers.)

Please join us in person or on YouTube.

Rabbi Meir Bargeron will lead the Kol Nidre service, weaving together aspects of both liturgical traditions to inspire new insights during this time of reflection, forgiveness, and renewal. He’ll be joined by Hazzan Myers with musical accompaniment by Maestro Robert Nance. 

Find the schedule for Reform and Conservative services on the Day of Atonement and the Break-the-Fasts hosted by the ROMEOs that follow both concluding services.

We welcome you to join us throughout the High Holy Days 5785! 

What is Yom Kippur?

 

REMEMBERING YOUR LOVED ONES

If you wish to have a loved one’s name included during memorial services on Yom Kippur, please provide information to the Temple office by Tuesday, October 8. Call us at (260) 744-4245 or email at office@templecav.org. Join us for memorial services on Saturday, October 12 at 10 a.m. during our Conservative service or 4 p.m. during our Reform service.

 

SUPPORT THE TEMPLE WITH HIGH HOLY DAYS DONATION

As we start the New Year, it’s tradition to make a donation to the Temple to help support our year-round efforts to ensure a Jewish presence in Northeast Indiana.

Please consider being a “sponsor” of Achduth Vesholom’s High Holy Days 5785. Your generous gift will be used for needs during the holidays and beyond, from replenishing the floral fund to assisting with security, music, technology, and congregational events.

Sponsors who donate $54 or more by Friday, September 20 will be recognized in our holiday announcements. 

Jewish tradition encourages making tzedakah (charitable gifts) in multiples of 18, which is spelled chai and also means “life.” Donations offered in any amount will be greatly appreciated.

We’re proud to be one congregation with two worship traditions. Whether your customary gift is through sponsoring aliyot during Conservative services or your annual donation contributes to other congregational needs, we value and appreciate your assistance.

We have several ways to give:

  • Donate online and choose “High Holy Days” on the dropdown menu. Please indicate if your gift is “in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person, or celebrates an occasion.
  • For aliyot during our Conservative service, please contact Josh Tourkow at jtourkow@tcrjlaw.com. (To donate online, choose “High Holy Days – Aliyot” on the dropdown menu and indicate if your gift is “in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person, or celebrates an occasion.)
  • Send a check payable to “CAV- The Temple” to sponsor the High Holy Days (5200 Old Mill Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46807).

MACHZORIM ARE AVAILABLE TO BORROW

For those attending services online for the High Holy Days, we are making the Temple’s machzorim (holiday prayer books) available for congregants to borrow during the Days of Awe for both Reform and Conservative worship. Find out more

SUPPORT HIGH HOLY DAYS FOOD DRIVE WITH THANKSGIVING ITEMS

This year for the High Holy Days, we’re asking you to help those who need food assistance get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. Wellspring Interfaith Social Services, which counts the Temple among its congregational faith partners, will provide all the fixings their clients need to enjoy a delicious holiday meal. And we can help!

Please take a paper grocery bag from the lobby on Rosh Hashanah and return it on Yom Kippur with the following items in cans or boxes:

Mashed potatoes, stuffing, mushroom soup, green beans, sweet potatoes, cake mix/frosting, gratin potatoes/scalloped, gravy, french fried onions

If shopping is not your thing, we accept checks! Write a check to “Wellspring Interfaith Social Services” for any amount you can donate, get it to Temple, and we will take all checks to Wellspring.

You can always make a direct donation at www.wellspringinterfaith.org.  

Fill yourself with the holiday spirit and give what you can!

Thank you from the Social Action Committee!