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Temple Sinai (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Temple Sinai is a Jewish Reform congregation in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded in 2007 when Temple Beth Am and Congregation Adat Ari El merged. Temple Sinai has over 300 member families and its sub-groups include a Sisterhood, Men’s Club, Chavurah, Youth Group, and committees. Kenneth Segel was the first rabbi of Temple Sinai and was succeeded by Rabbi Malcolm Cohen in 2009.
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Audio clip from interview with David and Iris Torjman, November 12, 2015
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In this audio clip, Iris and David speak about going to shows at the hotels in Las Vegas in the 1960s through the 1990s. David Torjman was the Hebrew School teacher at Temple Beth Sholom and taught the children and grandchildren of many hotel owners and operators. They speak about their wedding reception during which Sasha Semenoff played.
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UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada
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The UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada (2015-2018) are comprised of digital images captured as part of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. The photographs include members of the Southern Nevada Jewish community, synagogues Temple Beth Sholom (current and original site), Congregation Ner Tamid (including aerials), Chabad of Las Vegas, Temple Sinai, and Midbar Kodesh Temple. There are also photographs of The Desert Torah Academy's Robert Cohen Educational Campus, the future site of Chabad of Green Valley, the Holocaust Resource Center, Manpower Las Vegas’s 50th anniversary celebration, and the House of Straus.
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Transcript of roundtable interview with members of Midbar Kodesh, April 19, 2015
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In this interview, members of Midbar Kodesh discuss how they each became involved in the synagogue, and how the congregation formed in the mid-1990s. Some of the narrators grew up in Las Vegas and talk about the growth of the town and being former members of Temple Beth Sholom.
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Audio clip from interview with Robert D. "Bob" Fisher by Barbara Tabach, January 8, 2015
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Robert D. "Bob" Fisher on January 08, 2015. In this clip, Fisher discusses his time in Las Vegas and his involvement with Temple Beth Sholom.
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David and Iris Torjman oral history interview
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Oral history interview with David and Iris Torjman conducted by Barbara Tabach on November 12, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Iris discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada from the Bronx in New York and meeting her husband. David discusses being a Jewish educator for Temple Beth Sholom. David also talks about working as a card dealer and investing in land.
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Digital administrative files and photographs, 1999-2011
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This series is comprised of CDs created by Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nevada) from 1999 to 2011. Contents include photographs of temple events and activities and files created by temple administration in the course of activities such as creating the temple bulletin; managing personnel, membership, and budgets; and planning events. File formats include spreadsheets, images, publisher files, and text documents.
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Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
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Visual materials, 1945-2007 and undated
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The Visual Materials series mainly consists of scrapbooks and photographs created by the Temple Beth Sholom community in Las Vegas, Nevada and depicting the activities of the congregation from 1945 to 2007. The Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom created scrapbooks of photographs, newspaper clippings, and epehemera documenting their activities, events, and members from 1948 to 1976. Digital surrogates of photographs and newspaper clippings that hang on the walls of Temple Beth Sholom show the congregation's history since 1945. Photographs from the 1980s to 2007 show the contruction of the new temple building in Summerlin, galas, fundraisers, and other events.
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Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Rabbi Bradley Tecktiel oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rabbi Bradley Tecktiel conducted by Barbara Tabach on April 19, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Tecktiel discusses being a rabbi of Midbar Kodesh Temple since 2008, his involvement with the Board of Rabbis, and Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish Federation's Community Relations.
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