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Jonathan S. Sparer, FAIA oral history interview
Oral history interview with Jonathan S. "Jon" Sparer, FAIA conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 04, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Sparer discusses his career as an architect of many major Las Vegas, Nevada hotels and casinos. He also talks about designing the Congregation Ner Tamid and The Center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) community.
Archival Collection
Organizational records, 1952-2015
The Organizational Records series consists mainly of Temple Beth Sholom (Las Vegas, Nevada) Board of Directors records such as meeting minutes, by-laws, policies, correspondence, memos, and budgets from 1952 to 2006. The Men's Club records in this series include correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, and documents related to the contruction of the Summerlin temple building and the Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden. Temple president Gene Greenberg's records date from 1985 to 1988 and include board minutes, correspondence, organization charts, reports, materials from United Synagogue of America biennial weekend, and resources for selecting a rabbi.
Collection Name: Temple Beth Sholom Records
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Barbara Raben oral history interview
Oral history interview with Barbara Raben conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 24, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview Raben discusses her involvement with Hadassah, a women's Jewish organization, in Southern Nevada, and the various groups within that organization. She also talks about her family, her relationship to Judaism, and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1991. Raben discusses the business she built in Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada called the Candy Factory. She then talks about the formation of Midbar Kodesh Temple with other families from Temple Beth Sholom.
Archival Collection
T-Shirt Color: White; Front: Memorial Run 2002, NYPD, PAPD, LASD, FDNY, United We Stand, In Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives In The Line Of Duty, Three Firefighters Pulling On Flag Pole & Union Emblem, & American Flag; Back: Los Angeles Sheriff's Athletic Association: Dep. David W. March, LASD Temple, EOW 4-29-02;Dep Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian, LASD Santa Clarita Valley, EOW 8-31-01, LASD Dept. Badge; Handwritten Text: Anthony Haraway, LA City Fire FS 21 C Platoon, Your Courage Will Always Be Remembered, Mark Pope; God Bless You, Thank You For All Your Courage; Your Courage & Self Sacrifice Live Forever, approximately 2001-2012
Collection Name: New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
Box/Folder: Box 385
Archival Component