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Transcript of interview with Beth Molasky by David Shwartz, June 2, 2014

Date

2014-06-02

Description

In this interview, Molasky discusses her parents, Irwin and Susan Molasky, and growing up in Las Vegas as a member of Temple Beth Sholom. She attended Sunday school and Hebrew school, but is not particularly religious as an adult.

Beth Molasky-Cornell is a partner, shareholder, and an active member of the board of directors of the Molasky Group of Companies, which was founded by her father Irwin Molasky. She is a founding partner and a core member of the board of directors of Ocean Pacific Companies, a high-end real estate development firm founded by her husband Ken Cornell in San Diego, California. Molasky-Cornell contributed to numerous Molasky Group building projects, including the Bank of America Plazas, the Winterwood Corporation land development, and the Park Towers luxury condominiums. Molasky was born in Florida; however, her family moved to Las Vegas before her second birthday. She graduated from Valley High School in 1968, and started college at the University of Southern California at the age of seventeen. After spending a couple of years in Rhode Island, where she had her children, she moved back to Las Vegas in 1975. In this interview, Molasky discusses her childhood experiences in Las Vegas, especially as a member of the Jewish community, and reflects upon changes that influenced her children?s upbringing in the city.

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Protestor preparing ash mixture for Ash Wednesday: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

An unidentified protestor preparing the ash mixture at the Nevada Test Site on Ash Wednesday 1991.

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Transcript of interview with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad by Barbara Tabach, October 29, 2014

Date

2014-10-29

Description

Sanford Akselrad is the rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid. In this interview he describes his rabbinical training, coming to Las Vegas, and the growth of the congregation.

More inclined in his youth to pursue a career as a scientist than rabbi, Sanford Akselrad (1957- ) became the rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid in 1988. Turning his tenure, Rabbi Akselrad has lead the congregation through its move from Emerson to Street to its permanent home on Green Valley Parkway and I-215 and shares a fun story about buying desks and chairs from the Clark County School District. He talks about many of the milestones including: Project Ezra which he started during the 2008 recession to help Jewish community members find jobs; the NextGen program which was initiated to bring young adults in their twenties and thirties back to the temple. For over twenty years Rabbi Akselrad was a member of the board of the Nevada Governor?s Council on Holocaust education, a topic that was the focus of his rabbinical thesis. He was the founding president of the Clark County Board of Rabbis and has served on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, Jewish Family Services, and the Humana Hospital Pastoral Advisory Board. He was also the chair of the Federation?s Community Relations Council (CRC). Rabbi Akselrad is a board member of the Anti-Defamation League Nevada region office and the Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada. Sanford Akselrad was born on October 6, 1957 in Oakland, California and raised in Palo Alto. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles and then went to graduate school at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion. He spent the first year of his graduate program in Israel, the next two in Los Angeles, and the final two years in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Akselrad met his wife Joni in Reno, Nevada and married her during his third year of rabbinical school. The couple has two children, CJ and Sam. After his ordination in 1984, Rabbi Akselrad was associate rabbi of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest Reform congregations in the Midwest. His choice of career was inspired by his father, Sidney Akselrad, who was a prominent rabbi involved in social justice issues and the Civil Rights Movement. Sanford Akselrad has followed his father?s example of community involvement, both in Las Vegas and on a national level: he served on the board of the National Conference of Community and Justice (NCJJ), he was chair of the NCJJ's Inter-faith Council, and he is active in the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ).

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Newsletters from Midbar Kodesh Temple (Henderson, Nev.), 2000-2002

Date

2000 to 2002

Description

Kol Badmidbar newsletters from Midbar Kodesh Temple, 2000-2002, include youth and education news, columns by the Rabbi and President, event announcements, yahrzeits and tributes, and advertisements.

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Newsletters from Adat Ari El (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2000

Date

2000

Description

Kol Ari El, The Lion's Voice newsletters from Adat Ari El Synagogue, 2000. The monthly newsletters include columns from the Rabbi, general interest information, announcements and birthday listings and yahrzeits.

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Newsletters from Ahavat Torah Synagogue (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2000

Date

2000

Description

Ahavat's Nu? newsletters from Ahavat Torah Synagogue, 2000. The newsletters feature columns from the Rabbi and President, as well as Bar and Bat Mitzvah announcements, yahrzeits, and advertisements.

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Newsletters from Bet Knesset Bamidbar of Sun City (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2000

Date

2000

Description

Monthly newsletters from Bet Knesset Bamidbar of Sun City for 2000. The newsletters include general interest information, columns by the congregation President and Rabbi, announcements and tribues.

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Newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2000

Date

2000

Description

The Bulletin, monthly newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom, 2000, include columns by the Rabbi and President, religious school news, announcements and calendars, event photographs, and advertisements..

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Newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2004

Date

2004

Description

The Bulletin, monthly newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom for 2004, include columns by the Rabbi, President, Executive Director and Cantor. The newsletters also feature news from the religious school, general announcements, events calendar, tributes and advertisements.

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Newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nev.), 2001-2002

Date

2001 to 2002

Description

The Bulletin, monthly newsletters from Temple Beth Sholom, 2001-2002, include columns by the Rabbi and President, religious school news, announcements and calendars, event photographs, and advertisements..

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