Temple Beth Sholom was the first Jewish congregation to be established in Southern Nevada. Its members and programs have played, and continue to play, an integral part in the development of Las Vegas. No sturdier population has grown from such small beginnings as has the Jewish community in Las Vegas.

Old timers recall the days when there were only two members of the Jewish faith here Eddie Blum (a part-time newsboy for the old Las Vegas Review) and Abe Abrams, known all over town as Abe the tailor. Others, who came after while the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) was being constructed, had no idea that The Meadows would one day become the City of Destiny.