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Campaign Update - Help us save this synagogue!

Happy Friday and shabbat shalom! It's about time for a little campaign update, and I am so pleased to share that a week and a half into our fundraising campaign, we've raised $8,105 to purchase this endangered historic synagogue! This comes from 33 lovely donors in amounts ranging anywhere from $2 to $5,000 — thank you all so much!

With the local real estate market so competitive, it is crucial that we keep this momentum going and growing. Rather than give a monetary goal for this weekend, we're hoping to see 54 (or more!) total donors before we light those shabbos candles tonight.

If you have a bit to spare this payday, please consider sending it our way! Every little bit helps, and additionally all donations that are made "in honor/memory of" will be commemorated in a future installment in the property's garden. No matter what you donate, we want to remember your loved ones with you! Click here for our fundraising campaign <3 and as always, please share this post!

Thank you all again, and we wish you a restful Shabbat!

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Help us save a historic synagogue!

Happy Monday, everyone! To celebrate reaching $7,000 in our fundraising effort to purchase our historic synagogue building in Indiana, here are some fun facts about the building's history!

this is the oldest synagogue building in Indiana, and the 12th oldest still standing in the nation!

it was built in 1867 by Jacob Welschbillig for the Ahavas Achim Congregation, one of the state's largest German-Jewish communities at the time.

the structure was built in a unique variation of the Romanesque style and used mostly local materials, with the exception of the stained glass windows.

before moving into this building the congregation met in a storeroom above a gun shop!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far — please help our efforts to preserve this building by following this page, sharing our posts, and donating to our campaign here: https://givebutter.com/PreserveAACC

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We still have $318,000 left to raise to save this building and every little bit helps!

All donations will be returned if we fail to obtain this property, from the smallest to the largest. Thank you everyone for your support so far ❤️

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logging in years later and accepting this will never be a nice photography or music blog, time to shitpost and scream incoherently like normal people!

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❛ don’t disturb me now, i can see the answers. ❜ ❛ till ‘this evening’ is ‘this morning’ life is fine. ❜ ❛ the end is just a little harder when brought about by friends. ❜ ❛ for all you care, this wine could be my blood. ❜ ❛ i must be mad thinking i’ll be remembered! ❜ ❛ my name will mean nothing ten minutes after i’m dead! ❜ ❛ cut out the dramatics! you know very well who — ❜ ❛ you want me to do it? ❜ ❛ hurry, they’re waiting! ❜ ❛ i don’t care why you do it! ❜ ❛ save me your speeches, i don’t wanna know — ❜ ❛ every time i look at you i don’t understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand. ❜ ❛ you’d have managed better if you’d had it planned. ❜ ❛ will none of you wait with me? ❜ ❛ take this cup away from me, for i don’t want to taste its poison. ❜ ❛ i have changed. ❜ ❛ i’m not as sure as when we started. ❜ ❛ listen, surely i’ve exceeded expectations? ❜ ❛ could you ask as much from any other man? ❜ ❛ let them hate me, hit me, hurt me. ❜ ❛ if i die what will be my reward? ❜ ❛ can you show me now that i would not be killed in vain? ❜ ❛ show me there’s a reason for your wanting me to die! ❜ ❛ you’re far too keen on where and how, but not so hot on why! ❜ ❛ why then am i scared to finish what i started. ❜ ❛ what you started. i didn’t start it. ❜ ❛ i will drink your cup of poison. ❜ ❛ kill me  —  take me now, before i change my mind. ❜ ❛ they’re all asleep, the fools. ❜ ❛ must you betray me with a kiss? ❜ ❛ put away your sword. ❜ ❛ don’t you know that it’s all over? ❜ ❛ it was nice, but now it’s gone. ❜ ❛ do you plan to put up a fight? ❜ ❛ what would you say were your big mistakes? ❜ ❛ have your men proved at all worthwhile? ❜ ❛ that’s what you say, you say that i am. ❜ ❛ i think i’ve seen you somewhere… ❜ ❛ i had to do it, don’t you see? ❜ ❛ i wonder how he knew. ❜ ❛ who is this broken man cluttering up my hallway? ❜ ❛ you’re in deep trouble, friend. ❜ ❛ you’ve been getting quite a name all around the place. ❜ ❛ you are nothing but a fraud. ❜ ❛ could we start again, please? ❜ ❛ i think you’ve made your point now. ❜ ❛ my god! i saw him, he looked three-quarters dead — ❜ ❛ i’d save him all this suffering if i could! ❜ ❛ all that you’ve said has come true with a vengeance. ❜ ❛ pretty good wages for one little kiss. ❜ ❛ i have been spattered with innocent blood. ❜ ❛ does he love me too? does he care for me? ❜ ❛ i’ll never know why you chose me for your crime. ❜ ❛ i look for truth and find that i get damned. ❜ ❛ why do you not speak when i have your life in my hands? ❜ ❛ any power you have comes to you from far beyond. ❜ ❛ everything is fixed and you can’t change it. ❜ ❛ die if you want to, you misguided martyr! ❜ ❛ you could have reached a whole nation. ❜ ❛ what have you sacrificed? ❜ ❛ forgive them  —  they know not what they do. ❜ ❛ who is my mother? where is my father? ❜ ❛ my god, my god, why have you forgotten me? ❜ ❛ it is finished. ❜ 

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❛ my mind is clearer now. ❜ ❛ you’ve started to believe the things they say of you. ❜ ❛ all the good you’ve done will soon be swept away. ❜ ❛ listen, i don’t like what i see. ❜ ❛ all i ask is that you listen to me! ❜ ❛ remember, i’ve been your right-hand man all along. ❜ ❛ i remember when this whole thing began. ❜ ❛ my admiration for you hasn’t died. ❜ ❛ every word you say today gets twisted ‘round some other way. ❜ ❛ they’ll hurt you if they think you’ve lied. ❜ ❛ he’d have caused nobody harm, no one alarm. ❜ ❛ don’t you see we must keep in our place? ❜ ❛ i am frightened by the crowd. ❜ ❛ they’ll crush us if we go too far. ❜ ❛ it’s sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. ❜ ❛ all your followers are blind! ❜ ❛ it’s all gone sour. ❜ ❛ tell me what’s happening. ❜ ❛ why should you want to know? ❜ ❛ save tomorrow for tomorrow, think about today instead. ❜ ❛ why are you obsessed with fighting times and fates you can’t defy? ❜ ❛ they only need a small excuse to put us all away. ❜ ❛ if your slate is clean, then you can throw stones. ❜ ❛ there is not a man among you who knows or cares if i come or go! ❜ ❛ try not to get worried. ❜ ❛ let the world turn without you tonight. ❜ ❛ close your eyes and relax, think of nothing tonight. ❜ ❛ gentlemen, you know why we are here. ❜ ❛ fools, you have no perception! ❜ ❛ we must crush him completely. ❜ ❛ if every tongue were stilled the noise would still continue. ❜ ❛ there is not one of you who cannot win the kingdom. ❜ ❛ there must be over fifty thousand screaming love and more for you. ❜ ❛ you will rise to a greater power. ❜ ❛ we will win ourselves a home. ❜ ❛ to conquer death you only have to die. ❜ ❛ he had that look you very rarely find; the haunting, hunted kind. ❜ ❛ he never said a word. ❜ ❛ come on in for the best in town! ❜ ❛ name your price, i got everything! ❜ ❛ while your temple still survives, you, at least, are still alive. ❜ ❛ i got things you won’t believe. ❜ ❛ i can fix your wildest needs! ❜ ❛ i got heaven and i got hell. ❜ ❛ what you see is what you get. ❜ ❛ no one’s been disappointed yet. ❜ ❛ get out! get out! ❜ ❛ my time is almost through. ❜ ❛ i’ve tried for three years, feels like thirty. ❜ ❛ heal yourselves! ❜ ❛ i don’t know how to love him. ❜ ❛ in these past few days when i see myself i seem like someone else. ❜ ❛ he’s just a man, and i’ve had so many men before. ❜ ❛ yet if he said he loved me, i’d be lost, i’d be frightened, i couldn’t cope. ❜ ❛ these sordid kind of things are coming hard to me. ❜ ❛ it’s taken me some time to work out what to do. ❜ ❛ i have no thought at all about my own reward. ❜ ❛ i really didn’t come here of my own accord. ❜ ❛ just don’t say i’m damned for all time! ❜ ❛ why are we the ones who see the sad solution, know what must be done? ❜ ❛ we want information. ❜ ❛ i don’t want your blood money! ❜ ❛ think of the things you could do with that money. ❜ ❛ a fee, nothing more. ❜