“Our roots date to 1848, distinguishing us as the oldest Jewish congregation in Indiana. Since its founding, the Temple has resided in four different synagogues…We were originally an Orthodox German congregation, and the minutes of all meetings were kept in German for our first 30 years. Rabbi Joseph Solomon, our first rabbi, taught Hebrew and German, as well as the fundamentals of our faith at what was the first Jewish parochial school…Reform Judaism began to be introduced in August 1862 with the arrival of Rabbi Edward Rubin, our third rabbi. Records show the new Einhorn prayerbook containing German as well as Hebrew was introduced “so that the young people in the congregation could understand what they were praying.”…The Union Prayer Book was established as the official ritual of the Congregation in 1891 and sermons in German were discontinued…The congregation began using the new High Holy Days prayer book Mishkan Hanefesh in 2015.” (Congregation Achduth Vesholom website)
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