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[ahavasachim]

Help us save a historic synagogue!

Preserve Ahavas Achim

By Ahavas Achim Cultural Center

Hello! My name is Robyn and I am a founding member of AACC, a nonprofit formed by our local Jewish community in response to the sale of our historic temple built in 1867. This synagogue is the oldest in Indiana, and the 12th oldest still standing nationwide! Originally sold in 1969, it has since housed the Red Cross, the Unitarian Church, and other local nonprofits before falling into disuse. We have kept an eye on this building as it sat empty for the last few years, and now that it has been placed back on the market we are hoping to move as quickly as possible to secure it as an inclusive welcoming educational and cultural space for our local community!

Our goal is to raise $325,000 to purchase the synagogue!

We would be so grateful if you could donate if you are able (any amount helps!), check out our website, follow us here - and please share this post! Help us save this beautiful piece of diaspora history!

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Moses being saved from the river, fresco from the Synagogue of Dura Europos, 244–255 CE.

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I was in Czech last week 🇨🇿

And made a charactedesign out of this pretty Synagogue in Praha 🕍

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Mollayaghoub Synagogue/ Isfahan/ Iran

Photography: Saeed amini

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Beth Sholom Synagogue (1954-59) in Elkins Park, PA, USA, by Frank Lloyd Wright

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I went to kabbalat shabbat at an Aussie shul (reform) for the first time last week. After services, in addition to challah and pastries and tiny glasses of wine, they had hard liquor (gin, vodka, and scotch) which I have never seen before at an American shul. Is this an Aussie thing? Did I just go to square shuls in the US? Is it more common in other denominations?

Does your synogogue normally provide hard liquor at the oneg?

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woke up from a dream where ezra koenig of vampire weekend was the cantor of my synagogue

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Kohal Beth Israel, New York, 1958, by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983).

James Van Der Zee lived and photographed in Harlem for many decades earning him his reputation as both the neighborhood's preeminent photographer and one of the first great African-American photographers of the Twentieth century. This photograph documents the congregants of one Harlem synagogue in the late 1950s.