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Congregation Ner Tamid roundtable oral history interview
Oral history interview with the Congregation Ner Tamid roundtable conducted by Barbara Tabach on September 21, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Rabbi Sanford Akselrad and five members of the congregation discuss the founding of Congregation Ner Tamid, the first reform synagogue in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1974. They go into detail on how the synagogue was formed, the building-hopping they did until they built their current structure, and the funding it took to get to that point. The interviewees reveal a few donors, such as Morris Dalitz and Frank Sinatra, who helped to build their synagogue and school. The interview ends with meaningful stories and memories the members have relating to Congregation Ner Tamid.
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Photographs of Temple Beth Sholom event, December 22, 1970
Members of Temple Beth Sholom attending an event. 120mm negatives.
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Photographs of Temple Beth Sholom's choir, November 02, 1974
Group photographs of Temple Beth Sholom's choir. 120mm negatives.
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Photographs of Rabbi Weisberg of Congregation Ner Tamid, October 17, 1977
Various photographs of Rabbi Stephen Weisberg of Congregation Ner Tamid posing in the desert. 120mm negatives.
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Audio clip from interview with Daryl Alterwitz, November 8, 2014
Part of an interview with Daryl Alterwitz on November 8, 2014. In this clip, Alterwitz describes moving to Las Vegas as a teenager with his family, and meeting his good friend Robert Engel at Valley High School.
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