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Transcript of roundtable interview with members of Midbar Kodesh, April 19, 2015
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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Digital administrative files and photographs, 1999-2011
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.
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
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David and Iris Torjman oral history interview
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.
Archival Collection
Visual materials, 1945-2007 and undated
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.
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Rabbi Bradley Tecktiel oral history interview
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.
Archival Collection
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Fletcher, Temple
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Clip 1 from interview with Barbara Raben, February 24, 2015
In this clip, Raben talks about attending services at Temple Beth Sholom, and her son recognizing many students from Green Valley High School.
Transcript of interview with David and Iris Torjman by Barbara Tabach, November 12, 2015
In this interview, the Torjmans recall meeting at Temple Beth Sholom and their careers in Las Vegas. David Torjman was a Hebrew School teacher at Temple Beth Sholom, and later became a dealer at the Rainbow Club and Tropicana. Iris was a health aide for the Clark County School District.
In 1964, a young Hebrew school teacher was recruited to teach at Temple Beth Sholom. Soon he met Iris Schwartz who had moved to Las Vegas to live with her aunt. Less than two years later David proposed to Iris in Jack Entratter's suite at the Sands; had a New York wedding and then a local wedding thrown by the Sisterhood at Temple Beth Sholom. The couple came from distinctively different Jewish backgrounds. David was born and raised in Morocco and was educated in trades at the ORT Vocational School in Fez, Morocco. He then studied at Sunderland Talmudical College in England before immigrating to the United States. Iris was a native of Bronx, New York. And tells how before the couple met in Las Vegas that they actually lived within blocks of each other in New York. She moved to Las Vegas to live with relatives as a young woman. In 1964 destiny brought them together. David?s career as a Hebrew school teacher brought him to Temple Beth Sholom, a career that lasted for three years. He then worked for Jerry Hory?s Hock Shop and later became a dealer for the Rainbow Club and the Tropicana. Iris worked for the Clark County School District as a health aide. They have been successful investors in local property and enjoy their retirement. They tell the story of meeting and creating a life in Las Vegas where they raised their three children.
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