A scrapbook album from the Temple Beth Sholom Sisterhood and Jewish Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The album features photographs, news clippings, newsletters, and ephemera from various events.
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A scrapbook album from the Temple Beth Sholom Sisterhood and Jewish Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The album features photographs, news clippings, newsletters, and ephemera from various events.
Mixed Content
Meeting minutes include reports from committees of the board, correspondence, and balance sheets.
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Group photographs of Temple Beth Sholom members. 4x5 negatives.
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Unidentified members of Temple Beth Sholom's choir. 120mm negative.
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In this roundtable discussion, members of Temple Beth Sholom discuss the history of the long-established congregation. Interviewees are Sandy Mallin, Oscar Goodman, Jared Shafer, Joel Goot, Arne Rosencrantz, Jerry Blut, Jackie Boiman, Gene Greenberg, and Flora Mason, with Shelley Berkley joining in later in the interview. Most of the interviewees have been involved in the leadership of the congregation. They discuss relationships with various rabbis over the years, and successful fundraising efforts to build the original synagogue. Other early leaders in the congregation were Edythe Katz-Yarchever, the Goot family, Stuart Mason, Herb Kaufman and Leo Wilner. Until the 1980s, Temple Beth Sholom was the only synagogue in Las Vegas, but after a dispute over the burial of a non-Jew, a new synagogue formed (Shareii Tefilla), and at nearly the same time, Temple Beth Sholom began investigating a move from their site on Oakey Boulevard. Most have nostalgia for the former location, but discuss the changes in the neighborhood that necessitated the move to Summerlin. Then they discuss the other initiatives that were borne out of Temple Beth Sholom, such as bond drives for Israel, B'nai B'rith, and the Kolod Center. They share other memories, then discuss the leadership and Sandy Mallin becoming the first female president of the temple. They credit Mallin with keeping the temple going through lean years, and helping to recruit Rabbi Felipe Goodman. The group goes on to mention other influential members of the Jewish community including Jack Entratter and Lloyd Katz, who helped integrate Las Vegas.
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A group photograph of unidentified Temple Beth Sholom members. 120mm negative.
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Oral history roundtable video with members of Temple Sinai: Jack Kaufman, Meera Kagemai, Sue Rhodes, Amy Stein and Jeff Klein. The participants discuss the creation of Temple Sinai from the merger of Temple Beth Am and Adat Ari El Congregation, and their experiences serving on the board of directors of the temple.
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Members of Temple Beth Sholom attending an event. 120mm negatives.
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Group photographs of Temple Beth Sholom's choir. 120mm negatives.
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