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Photograph of Danny Kolod Youth Center at Temple Beth Sholom, 1960s
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-035
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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
"Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel
Person
Kirshbaum, Irving, 1909-1980
Irving Kirshbaum (1909-1980) worked for Willie Alderman and Dave Berman at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1955 until the 1970s. Kirshbaum was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived in Los Angeles, California before he moved to Las Vegas in 1955. He worked as a "box man and a floor man" at the Riviera.
Person
Straus, David, 1964-
David Straus was born November 11, 1964 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Joyce Straus, an artist, and Neil Straus, a doctor. After graduating from Clark High School, he attended the University of Arizona and then Whittier Law School. Straus built a successful legal career focused on estate planning, asset protection and charitable planning.
Person
Adat Ari El (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Congregation Adat Ari El was a Jewish Reform congregation in Las Vegas, Nevada founded by former members of Temple Beth Am in 1992. The congregation started out with about 15 families that held services in a donated storefront every two weeks, led by a rabbi who traveled from California. In 2007, Adat Ariel merged with Temple Beth Am to form Temple Sinai.
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Israel Independence Day, Total Woman, Women's Division, Israel's 33rd Anniversary, new programs, National Women's Division program highlights, Women's Division $1250 and up luncheon, 1978-1985
Collection Name: Jewish Nevada Records
Box/Folder: Box 45 (Restrictions apply)
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Fran Fine-Ventura portraits, 2016
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
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Midbar Kodesh remarriage of converts to Judaism: Chrissy and David Krasin, Maxine and Roland Muse, 1998 June 18
Collection Name: Collection on the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish Community
Box/Folder: Box 5
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