Photo albums and loose photographs documenting Temple Beth Sholom, the International Lion of Judah conference for United Jewish Community/Jewish Federation and other events. Photographs show Sharon Sigesmund, Shelley Berkley, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton, among others.
It is evident that a keen wit and persistent tenaciousness to protect victims of crime have earned Judge Abbi Silver the reputation that elevated her to her current position as Chief Judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals. She is the first female to hold this position. Judge Silver is a lifelong resident of southern Nevada. She was raised in Boulder City, where her family was the only Jewish family at the time. Her father was a doctor and eventually the family moved into Las Vegas, where she graduated from Clark High School and then University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1986). Always an overachiever, she worked multiple jobs?waitress, Utah Jazz cheerleader, dancer?while earning her undergraduate degree and then her law degree from Southwestern University of Law, in Los Angles (1989). In this oral history, Judge Silver recalls being a law clerk for Honorable Earle White, Jr., joining the Clark County District Attorney?s Office and being assigned as the Chief Deputy DA for the Special Victims
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN), established in 1989, is a chapter of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) and "is dedicated to researching and preserving Jewish family history in the United States and throughout the world." In its early days, JGSSN met in the library in Temple Beth Sholom, but by the late 1990s, it became inactive. In 1998 Carole Montello reorganized and revitalized the Society.
Photographs of the Behar, Bally and Halfon families, 1920s-1950s. Photographs show Maurice Behar as a child with his mother in France, and his parents' families in Istanbul, Turkey, and Biarritz, France.
The materials in the 2016-064 accession is primarily comprised of administrative files of the Executive Committee, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish Family Services Agency, Women's Division, Business and Professional Division, and the Community Relations Committee (CRC) from approximately 1978 to 2012. The accession includes photographs used to create editions of the Jewish Reporter newspaper. The accession also includes various audiovisual formats throughout the materials including photographs, audiocassettes, video tapes, and optical disks.
Archival Collection
Jewish Nevada Records
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Collection Number: MS-00602 Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records Box/Folder: N/A