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Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal "Meet A Friendly Machine-Gun Crew!" poster, 1953-1959
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Meet A Friendly Machine-Gun Crew! poster from the Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal asking for contributions to aid Jewish refugees. The text across the the front reads: "MEET A FRIENDLY MACHINE-GUN CREW! "America will lose the entire near East -- except for Israel! As long as ISRAEL is HELPED BY AMERICAN JEWRY, Israel can survive as our ONE FRIENDLY OUTPOST in the Near East!" - a statement made by General "Lightening Joe" Collins, former Chief of Staff, United States Army, at the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C., on July 1. 1958. TODAY IS AN EMERGENCY!! 80,000 persecuted Jewish refugees from Poland and Moslem lands must be helped to get to Israel - and quickly! Your contribution to the UNITED JEWISH APPEAL will help the emergency SPECIAL RESCUE FUND of $100,000,000 - and will help build up the newborn state of Israel - to remain strong - well-armed -- fiercely proud of its freedom - ready and able to remain YOUR ONE FRIENDLY OUTPOST IN A HOSTILE PART OF THE WORLD! -wouldn't you feel a little more secure with a friendly outpost guarding your freedom in the Near East? Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal Post Office Box 1981 Las Vegas, Nevada. Carl Cohen, chairman/Co-chairmen: Moe Dalitz and Jacob Kozloff/Nevada State Chairman: Edward Levinson"
Mixed Content
Nevada Empowered Women's Project Records
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Abstract
The Nevada Empowered Women's Project (NEW Project) Records (1996-2001) consists of brochures, newsclippings, federal and state agency reports, and manuals about poverty and welfare rights pertaining to the activism of the NEW Project, headquartered in Reno, Nevada. The material chronicles the battles over welfare reform in the 1990s and also includes the full agenda and report for the 1999 Welfare Reform Conference held in Washington, D.C.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Donn Arden with women, 1940s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Landman, Leo. Jewish Attitudes Toward Gambling: Individual and communal efforts to curb gambling, Jewish Quarterly Review 58(1), 1967
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Articles on Gaming and Las Vegas, Nevada Topics
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Video, Jewish Federation of Las Vegas "Imagine" commercial, circa 1995
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Public relations video for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas.
Moving Image
Nevada Women's Lobby, Women's Summit, co-sponsors, 1996
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frontier Girl Scouts Records
Box/Folder: Box 27
Archival Component
Nevada Women's Lobby, Women's Summit directory draft, 1998
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frontier Girl Scouts Records
Box/Folder: Box 36
Archival Component
Nevada Women's Lobby, Women's Summit, Art Exhibit, 1998
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frontier Girl Scouts Records
Box/Folder: Box 36
Archival Component
Photograph of event hosted by the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 1998-2000
Description
Group of children lighting a menorah with Oscar Goodman at an event for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, undated.
Remembering Nevada Women: Nevada Women's History Project, undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Shelley Berkley Papers
Box/Folder: Box 34
Archival Component