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Photograph of Torah at Congregation Ner Tamid, Henderson, Nevada, May 24, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Torah are part of the Wasserman Ark and Bima inside the Joyce & Jerome Mack Sanctuary in Congregation Ner Tamid on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning & Spiritual Renewal.
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Photograph of past presidents of Temple Beth Sholom, approximately 1978
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Standing, left to right: Mel Moss, Jack Entratter, Harry Wallenstein, Al Goot, David Zenoff, Jerry Mack. Seated, left to right: Nate Mack, Mike Gordon, Lloyd Katz.
Joyce Mack oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Joyce Mack conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 23, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Joyce Mack discusses meeting her husband, Jerry Mack, their early life as a couple, and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada at the suggestion of Jerry's father, Nate Mack. She discusses how Jerry met Parry Thomas and their banking and real estate investments. Mack talks about the opening of the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the development of the strip hotels, and discusses her children.
Archival Collection
Paula Sadler oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Paula Sadler conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on January 28, 2025 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Sadler describes arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada as a teenager with her mother from California. After graduating from Green Valley High School in 1994, she enrolled at Rollers Institute of Cosmetology in Commercial Center, and graduated as a manicurist. She then recalls renting a space in a salon before opening her own salon, A Harmony Nail Spa, in Commercial Center in 2004. In this interview, she discusses forming a business owners' association in 2007, cleaning up Commercial Center, and the original vision of Commercial Center by its original owners and developers, E. Parry Thomas and Jerome Mack. She describes the public ownership of Commercial Center's parking lots and sidewalks and the Clark County Commission's relationship with the property.
Archival Collection
Group photograph at the CJA Ball, May 1973
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Clockwise: Flora Mason in chair with back to camera, Stuart Mason, Dorothy Cannon, Howard Cannon, Joyce Mack's daughter?, Simcha Dinitz (Israeli Ambassador to U.S.), Joyce Mack, Jerry Mack? (hidden), and 3 other unidentified people.
Handwritten list of names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s
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Archival Collection
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This list was written by Charles Salton, brother of Adele Baratz. Salton lists the names of Jewish people living in Las Vegas in the 1940s. The list is dated September 26, 1946.
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