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Fried, Yvonne Suzanne, 1950-

Yvonne Fried, M.D., is the fourth child of five born to Milton and Esther Fried, the founders of Freed’s Bakery. In 1955, Yvonne arrived in Las Vegas as the little sister with three older brothers. Their father was a musician, who ventured into the snack bar business, which he grew with his enterprising wife. Yvonne became a medical physician and lives in Oregon. Yvonne is married to Martin Jacobson. They have three children: David, Daniela, and Max Jacobson-Fried.

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Chabad East- Or Bamidbar

Or Bamidbar Chabad – East concentrates on the Jewish education, while providing care, inspirations, hospitality and knowledge to people in the Las Vegas Valley. Under the guidance of Rabbi Yossi and his wife Miriam Shuchat, there objective is to inspire every Jew to find more joy and meaning in their own personal observance of Judaism, in their personal connection to their Jewish heritage.
 

Or Bamidbar Chabad holds many events, classes and programs to help create community within the Las Vegas Jewish Community.

David Ober interview, October 11, 2017: transcript

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2017-10-11
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Tucson, Arizona, native David Ober moved to Las Vegas twice. He arrived reluctantly the first time in 1978 with his parents as a high-school student, when his father, Hal Ober, came to Las Vegas to begin building and marketing the U.S. Home (now Lennar) brand. While the elder Ober soon left U.S. Home to open his own home-building business, R.A. Homes, his youngest child left Las Vegas shortly after his high school graduation to return to his native Tucson, follow in the footsteps of his siblings, and attend the University of Arizona. After graduating from the University of Arizona David Ober opened his own mortgage company and began building a life in Phoenix. In the late 1980s he agreed to take a large pay cut, return to Las Vegas, and learn his father's business from the ground up. At the time, Hal Ober was developing his award-winning, master-planned community, Desert Shores. David Ober, the youngest of the five children of Hal and D'Vorre (Dee) Ober, agreed to participate in the

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