Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 1011 - 1020 of 5097

Documents from Meera Kamegai regarding the history of Temple Beth Am, 2004-2014

Date

2004 to 2012

Description

Correspondence, legal documentation, meeting agendas, and notes regarding the history of Temple Beth Am, the merger between Temple Beth Am and Congregation Adat Ari El to form Temple Sinai.

Text

Lisa Song Sutton oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03813

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lisa Song Sutton conducted by Cecilia Winchell, Vanessa Concepcion, and Stefani Evans on November 19, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.

Lisa shares her personal history and childhood memories moving from Seoul, South Korea to Sierra Vista, Arizona at the age of five. She discusses her educational and professional pursuits in business litigation, bankruptcy law, entrepreneurship, modeling, and her time in the pageant circuit winning Miss Vegas and Miss Nevada in 2013. Lisa also talks about her activism and community engagement efforts to empower women within Las Vegas. She concludes her interview with insight into her Korean heritage, traditional celebrations, and religion.

Archival Collection

Essay, by Charles Salton (1921-2004), 2002

Date

2002

Archival Collection

Description

Handwritten essay by Adele Baratz?s brother, Charles Salton, in 2002 describing his family history since coming to Las Vegas in 1928, and the history of the Jewish community in the area.

Text

Photograph of Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, Henderson (Nev.), June 08, 2016

Date

2016-06-08

Description

Rabbi Sanford Akselrad in the Joyce & Jerome Mack Sanctuary at Congregation Ner Tamid on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning & Spiritual Renewal.

Image

Photograph of Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, Henderson (Nev.), June 08, 2016

Date

2016-06-08

Description

Rabbi Sanford Akselrad in the Joyce & Jerome Mack Sanctuary at Congregation Ner Tamid on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning & Spiritual Renewal.

Image

Interview with Jewel Maynard Viot, November 1, 2004

Date

2004-11-01

Description

Narrator affiliation: Senior Engineering Specialist

Text