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Audio clip from interview with Jon Sparer, March 4, 2015
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Jon Sparer, March 4, 2015. In this clip, architect Jon Sparer discusses his involvement with designing and building the synagogue for Congregation Ner Tamid.
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Photographs, videos, and transcript of "Jewish Las Vegas" bus tour, May 17, 2015
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Temple Beth Sholom organized and led a bus tour of parts of Las Vegas that are significant in local Jewish history. UNLV Special Collections and Archives staff took photos and video on this tour, and the video was later transcribed. Stops on the tour included Woodlawn Cemetery and the former Temple Beth Sholom campus on Oakey Boulevard. Narrator Arlene Blut gives the overview of the Jewish community, and Rabbi Felipe Goodman talks to tour participants at the cemetery. Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman speaks at the old synagogue along with Josh Abbey, whose mother created the stained glass windows at the temple.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Irene Fisher and Bobbie Gang oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Irene Fisher and Bobbie Gang conducted by Barbara Tabach on September 29, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Fisher discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband assigned to Nellis Air Force Base, and their two children. She also talks about joining the Sisterhood at Temple Beth Sholom and the Clark County Library District Board. Gang joins in to talk about volunteering, family, and raising children in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Congregation Ner Tamid roundtable oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Oral history interview with the Congregation Ner Tamid roundtable conducted by Barbara Tabach on September 21, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Rabbi Sanford Akselrad and five members of the congregation discuss the founding of Congregation Ner Tamid, the first reform synagogue in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1974. They go into detail on how the synagogue was formed, the building-hopping they did until they built their current structure, and the funding it took to get to that point. The interviewees reveal a few donors, such as Morris Dalitz and Frank Sinatra, who helped to build their synagogue and school. The interview ends with meaningful stories and memories the members have relating to Congregation Ner Tamid.
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A painting of Jesus Christ in Assisi, close up: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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