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Congregation Ahavas Shalom soon began holding its meetings in the Jewish homes of Ligonier. [3] The first permanent building was a wooden structure, in 1871. By 1889, the Ahavas Shalom Temple was dedicated with a membership of some 60 Jewish families, or a quarter (27%) of the town's population (some 600 persons of approximately 2,200) Ligonier ...
The Winona Lake Historic District is located along the Eastern shore of Winona Lake in Kosciusko County, Indiana.Historically, it is perhaps best known as a major center within the evangelical Bible Conference Movement during the first half of the twentieth century, though these gatherings were just one part of the larger history of the town of Winona Lake, an area which has been a Chautauqua ...
Rehoboth (Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת Reḥovot, "broad place") is the name of three places in the Bible. In Genesis 26:22 , It signifies vacant land in the Land of Canaan where Isaac is permitted to dig a well without being ousted by the Philistines.
Ahavas Shalom Reform Temple (originally, Ahavath Scholom, also Ahavath Sholom, "Lovers of Peace" or "Peace Loving") [2] [a]) is an historic former Reform Jewish synagogue building located at 503 Main Street, in Ligonier, Noble County, Indiana, in the United States.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
The Indiana Jewish Historical Society is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational organization with a stated goal to collect, preserve, publish, and share the Jewish experience in Indiana. [1] The Indiana Jewish Historical Society, or IJHS, was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1972. The Indiana Jewish Historical Society's first Executive Director ...
An Ohio nonprofit that provides off-site Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours says it will triple its programs in Indiana this fall after new legislation forced ...
A mechitza (halachik wall) together with an eruv chatzerot (Hebrew: עירוב חצרות), commonly known in English as a community eruv, is a symbolic boundary that allows Jews who observe the religious rules concerning Shabbat to carry certain items outside of their homes that would otherwise be forbidden during Shabbat.