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Russian resettlement program, immigration info, Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS), Super Sunday, Development Committee, Leadership Development Committee, Temple Beth Sholom, Leadership Development, Young leadership development, CJA, Board of Directors, 1970s-1991

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Jewish Nevada Records
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Collection Number: MS-00602
Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records
Box/Folder: Box 41 (Restrictions apply)

Archival Component

Congregation Ner Tamid member and event photographs, annual reports, "Mensch of the Year" award, "Women of Valor" award, Congregation Ner Tamid booklets, confirmation services programs, gala programs and invitations, CNT temple exterior photographs, 2006 to 2018

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Congregation Ner Tamid Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00812
Collection Name: Congregation Ner Tamid Records
Box/Folder: Box 03, Digital File 00, Box SH-051

Archival Component

Audio clip 1 from interview with Dr Ed Goldman, April 4, 2016

Description

Dr. Goldman discusses attending services at Temple Beth Sholom and Cantor Joseph Kohn's connections on the Strip.

Member directory for Congregation Ner Tamid, 1990s

Date

1990 to 1999

Archival Collection

Description

The membership directory for Congregation Ner Tamid includes photographs of members and ongoing programs of the temple.

Text

Rochelle Hornsby Papers

Identifier

MS-00835

Abstract

Papers are comprised of newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera collected by Rochelle Hornsby about her life in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1970s and 1980s and her involvement with Temple Beth Sholom. The papers include information about Temple Beth Sholom productions and plays as well as Hornsby's involvement with local sport leagues.

Archival Collection

Temple Sinai (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Corporate Body Alternate Name

Temple Beth Am (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Adat Ari El (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Temple Sinai is a Jewish Reform congregation in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded in 2007 when Temple Beth Am and Congregation Adat Ari El merged. Temple Sinai has over 300 member families and its sub-groups include a Sisterhood, Men’s Club, Chavurah, Youth Group, and committees. Kenneth Segel was the first rabbi of Temple Sinai and was succeeded by Rabbi Malcolm Cohen in 2009.

Corporate Body

Rabbi Bernard Cohen Papers

Identifier

MS-01050

Abstract

The Rabbi Bernard Cohen Papers (1957-1984) consist of mainly bulletins for the Las Vegas Jewish Community Center (later known as Temple Beth Sholom). Other materials in this collection include correspondence to and from Rabbi Cohen and certificates of conversion signed by Cohen. The collection also includes a eulogy for Cohen written by Rabbi Wise as well as an advertisement for Cohen's book Sociocultural Changes in American Jewish Life as Reflected in Selected Jewish Literature which was published in 1972.

Archival Collection

Top part of the pagoda in courtyard of Castaways Hotel: photographic print

Date

1970 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

From the Castaways Hotel and Casino Photograph Collection (PH-00270). Top of the pagoda in courtyard of the Castaways Hotel. Inscription with image reads: "Known as "Gateway to Luck," this priceless art relic is an exact replica of the famed Jain Temple at Palitana, India taken atound the 1970s."

Image

Audio clip from interview with Adele Baratz and Florence Frost, May 19, 2015

Date

2015-05-19

Description

In this clip, Adele Baratz and Florence Frost discuss growing up in Las Vegas, the absence of a concentrated neighborhood of Jewish families, and the establishment of the Temple Beth Sholom gift shop for selling Jewish goods like candles and menorahs.

Sound