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Temple Beth Am was a Jewish Reform congregation founded by Rabbi Mel Hecht in 1984 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1992, some members of the congregation, unhappy with Rabbi Hecht's leadership, broke off to form Congregation Adat Ari El. Construction on Beth Am's campus began in Summerlin in 2001. In 2007 Temple Beth Am and Adat Ari El merged to form Temple Sinai.
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Oral history roundtable with members of Temple Beth Sholom conducted by Barbara Tabach on January 14, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Sandy Mallin, past president of Temple Beth Sholom, leads a group of past leaders of the earliest Jewish synagogue (founded in 1946) in a discussion reminiscing on the temple’s beginning and growth as the Jewish population of Las Vegas, Nevada grew.
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Midbar Kodesh is a Conservative Jewish temple founded in Henderson, Nevada in 1995 by former members of Temple Beth Sholom. Population growth and physical expansion of real estate warranted the establishment of the second Conservative congregation in Southern Nevada, whose name means “Holy Desert.” Temple Beth Sholom was moving to the west side of the valley, and a group of families- the Kaminskys, Goldmans, Rothmans, Simons, Goldsteins, and Feldmans- decided to start a new temple on the east side.
