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Mike and Sallie Gordon oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mike and Sallie Gordon conducted by Adrianne Massa on March 02, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. In this interview Mike and Sallie Gordon talk about being some of the first Jewish people to come to Las Vegas, Nevada when they moved to the city on January 26, 1932. They also discuss being involved members of a group of Jewish pioneers and being founding members of the Temple Beth Sholom, Las Vegas's first synagogue. They also discuss the growth and changes of the valley between the early 1930s and mid-1970s.
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Photograph of Sharon Sigesmund Pierce at her bat Mitzvah as an adult, March 16, 1984
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of group of women at their bat Mitzvah, including Sharon Sigesmund Pierce (front, center-right), and her mother Sara Schwartz (front row, third from right), at Temple Beth Sholom.
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"And now, a word from our censor," newspaper clipping from CityLife featuring Sari Aizley, editor of CLASS! newspaper, 2000 March 2
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-036
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The Nevadan Today newspaper, profile of "George Rudiak, civil rights pioneer" (The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Vol. 27, No. 32), 1988 August 7
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-036
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Temple Beth Sholom publications, 2004-2007
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Scope and Contents
This file consists of annual reports, bulletins, event invitations and programs, and brochures from 2004 to 2007.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-035
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Photograph of Danny Kolod Youth Center at Temple Beth Sholom, 1960s
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-035
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Desert Torah Academy & Torah Tots Preschool | Las Vegas: archived website, 2016 to 2017
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Web Archive
Box/Folder: N/A
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Traditional Synagogue, Reform Senior Congregation - Temple Bet Knesset Bamidbar: archived website, 2017
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Web Archive
Box/Folder: N/A
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Wolzinger, Melvin. B.
Melvin B. Wolzinger is a Director Emeritus of MGM Resorts International. He is an investor in the company and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2000 to 2012. MGM owns fourteen casinos/resorts in Las Vegas, Nevada, and multiple other properties in the United States and abroad.
"Board of Directors." MGM Resorts International. Accessed November 24, 2015. http://mgmresorts.investorroom.com/board-of-directors.
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Zucker, Jeffrey P.
Jeffrey P. Zucker is an attorney and the director of Fennemore Craig Attorneys in Las Vegas, Nevada. He received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and his bachelor’s degree from Yale University. He served as president of the Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas from 2002 to 2005.
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