This video consists of three parts: an introduction by Rabbi Tecktiel and two roundtable discussions led by Barbara Tabach. The groups discuss their involvement with Midbar Kodesh and life in Las Vegas.
Collection is comprised of photographs of Las Vegas, Nevada community leaders Flora and Stuart Mason and three event programs from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nevada). Materials date from approximately 1965 to 2010.
Mark Fine was born February 10, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, and was raised with a strong Jewish identity. When Fine was in fourth grade, his parents moved the family to Shaker Heights, and again moved to Arizona during his senior of high school. Upon graduation, Fine enrolled at the University of Arizona and became a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in business administration with an emphasis in real estate.
Valerie Wiener shares a cookie and a story with first-graders during the annual birthday party, which she has sponsored at Louis Wiener, Jr. Elementary School since 1996. Wiener is wearing a school shirt.
Since 1996, Valerie Wiener has sponsored an annual birthday party at Louis Wiener Jr. Elementary School. Pictured with second-graders, she listens to them as they share their heartfelt stories. Wiener is wearing a school shirt.