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Photograph of group of women at their bat Mitzvah, including Sharon Sigesmund Pierce (front, center-right), and her mother Sara Schwartz (front row, third from right), at Temple Beth Sholom.
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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.
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Part of an interview with Beverly Mason, December 21, 2012. In this audio clip, Mason discusses the importance of church in her upbringing and in the African American community.
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This video consists of three parts: an introduction by Rabbi Tecktiel and two roundtable discussions led by Barbara Tabach. The groups discuss their involvement with Midbar Kodesh and life in Las Vegas.
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