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May 25, 2023 · The Las Vegas Jewish Community was able to raise enough money to purchase Temple Montefiore with donations that poured in from around the world. The group was able to close on the sale on Sept. 26. “It was bizarre, it was intense,” Nancy Terr said of the whirlwind fundraising campaign.
Sep 13, 2022 · Now, Terr and others in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a city of about 13,000 roughly an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, want to buy back Temple Montefiore, the first synagogue in the New Mexico...
Sep 14, 2023 · The Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., survived without a building to call its own for more than six decades, calling to mind Moses and the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40...
Sep 9, 2022 · Jews in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a city of about 13,000, and about 20 Jews, roughly an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, want to buy back Temple Montefiore, the first synagogue in the New Mexico...
Sep 9, 2022 · Neal Behrendts bar mitzvah was the first Jewish coming-of-age ceremony celebrated inside Temple Montefiore in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in more than 75 years. Thats in part because the local Jewish community is tiny Neals mother, Nancy Terr, recalls that when her family moved there in 1958, locals joked that they doubled Las Vegas Jewish population.
Sep 17, 2023 · A year ago, the Jewish Community of Las Vegas, N.M., purchased Temple Montefiore, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The synagogue, the first Jewish place of worship in New Mexico...
Sep 4, 2022 · • The Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., is raising funds to purchase Temple Montefiore, the first Jewish house of worship in what was then the New Mexico Territory.
