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Experience the Violins of Hope in Fort Wayne

By Erin O. on Nov. 04, 2019

Violins of Hope have toured cities around the world and will now come to Fort Wayne, Indiana. November 9–24, experience a series of events that showcase this powerful collection of restored violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust…

Indiana's Oldest Jewish Congregation

By The History Center on Oct. 09, 2014

Congregation Achduth Vesholom in Fort Wayne is Indiana’s oldest Jewish congregation, founded in 1848 by a group of 23 people as a “Society for Visiting the Sick and Burying the Dead”. In 1874, the congregation became a “Reform” congregation, meaning they are Reform Jews as opposed, for…

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Experience the Violins of Hope in Fort Wayne

Indiana's Oldest Jewish Congregation

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