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In this clip, Lori Chenin Frankl discusses different synagogues in Las Vegas and the difference between Conservative and Orthodox.
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I agree.In this clip, Lori Chenin Frankl discusses different synagogues in Las Vegas and the difference between Conservative and Orthodox.
Why do you think there are so many different synagogues in Las Vegas? Having grown up here, you were part of Temple Beth Sholom. Then you see Ner Tamid and all these other congregations come on the horizon. How or why did that happen, do you think? It's interesting that you're asking me that because I recently really learned more about the history of Ner Tamid because Ner Tamid started before I joined. I remember very clearly, very clearly when Shaarei Tefilla started. That was because my dad was a minyanaire. So they decided?when I had my bat mitzvah at Beth Sholom, girls were not allowed to touch the Torah. We couldn't do it on a Saturday morning. And so I did the haftarah Friday night, which girls were allowed to do haftarah, and my brother did Saturday morning. At that time girls did it at twelve. So being as we have close to the same birthday, we did it together, which is something I've always really been grateful that we shared. But I remember when they said girls could touch the Torah. And I was a little bit of a rebel once I hit my teen years. And so I remember wanting to hold that Torah. But I also remember my dad saying, "Oh, there's a lot of my friends who are not going to stand for this." And my dad was very, very open minded. It didn't really bother him, as far as I knew. We were Conservative, not Orthodox.