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David and Iris Torjman at home, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph, 2016 January 21
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada
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Torjman, David
David Torjman was born March 4, 1939 and raised in Fez, Morocco and was educated in trades at the ORT Vocational School. He then studied at Sunderland Talmudical College in England before immigrating to the United States. In 1964, he was recruited to teach at Temple Beth Sholom. Soon after, Torjman met Iris Schwartz who had moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to live with her aunt. Less than two years later, they had a New York wedding and then a local wedding thrown by the Sisterhood at Temple Beth Sholom. Torjman was a Hebrew school teacher until 1975.
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Photograph of Sunderland Talmudical College study hall, 1950s
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David Torjman is at bottom left.
Photograph of ORT Vocational School in Fez, Morocco, 1954
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David Torjman stands at bottom right.
Torjman, Iris Schwartz (1947 June 22-)
Iris Torjman was born June 22, 1947 in the Bronx of New York. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1966 to live with relatives as a young woman. She met her husband, David, in Las Vegas when they actually lived within blocks of each other in New York. Torjman worked for the Clark County School District as a health aide. She and her husband have been successful in investing in local property and enjoying their retirement.
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Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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The Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection is comprised of organizational records, photographs, event programs, and ephemera donated by members of the Southern Nevada Jewish community as part of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries’ Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Materials document the history of the Jewish community and Southern Nevada from 1941 to 2017. The collection provides information about family life, religious rituals, community events, and local businesses and organizations.
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Photograph of the first adult B'nai Mitzvah group at Temple Beth Sholom
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Front row, left to right: Cantor Simon Bergman, Melanie Greenberg, unknown, Lynn Rosencrantz, Sharon Rosenberg, Faye Steinberg; Back row, left to right: Rabbi Kalman Appel, Janice Riceberg, unknown, Elaine Houlick, unknown, Roberta Sabbath, Iris Torjman
Photograph of Succot (Sukkot) celebration, 1968
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L-R: Ralph Ogron, Gary Sharp, Michael Sharp, Miriam Sharp, Dorothy Ogron, and Bernie Ogron.
Transcript of interview with Charlene Herst by Barbara Tabach, September 09, 2016
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Archival Collection
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In 2014, Charlene, n?e Friedkin, Herst retired from her state government career, settled into volunteer work, being a mother and grandmother, and being a grant writer for others. After thirteen years in Carson City, she came back home to Las Vegas. Charlene was eight years old when her parents, Patricia and Richard Friedkin, moved their family to Las Vegas from northern California. She remembers vividly the hot day that they arrived and moved into a rental house in the desert across from Woodlawn Cemetery. Her father, formerly in the grocery business, found work at Vegas Village. Two years later they moved ?into Las Vegas at the very edge?which was Oakey.? She recalls people she has known since those first years who have been instrumental in the growth of Las Vegas; the challenges of being a divorced single mother of four; and the career path that began with an invitation from Gene Greenberg to apply for a part time position at Channel 3, where he was sales manager. At Channel 3 she quickly went from part time to full-time. She started the Community Projects Board, which brought together nonprofit organizations together at the studio in the 1980s to identify and develop marketing campaigns that addressed social issues in the community. Initiatives included Baby Your Baby and Smoking Stinks. While working for Channel 3, she also attended UNLV and received a communications degree in 1995. In 1997 she worked at Sierra Health Services in public relations. Then in October 2001, Charlene started her career in state government as the Nevada State Health Division?s Manager of the Tobacco Program. Over the course of her thirteen year career with the state, she was promoted to positions that continued her dedication to improving the quality of life of all Nevadans. She was instrumental in the implementation of the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act (2006); improving prevention services to women; reducing the rate of substance use and abuse in the state. The date of her retirement, October 10, 2014, was officially proclaimed in honor of Charlene Herst by Governor Brian Sandoval.
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