Time:: 20:00 - 21:30

Location: Kehilat Magen Avraham, Rehov Marganit, Omer

Description: Mordechai was born in France; his parents were born in Galicia and his siblings in Belgium. They lived in a number of countries in Europe and then in Australia. He came on Aliya in 1961. Mordechai will tell us the story of the Rechschafner family, particularly during the Holocaust.

Time:: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: Mercaz Shazar, Givatayim

Description: IGRA Annual Meeting open to all paid members.

Time:: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: General Pierre Koenig 37, Jerusalem, Israel

Description: Steve Morse - lecturer

Time:: 20:00 - 21:30

Location: Corner of Ad'ad St and Marganit, Omer, Israel

Description: Her conversion to Judaism and her surprising genealogical research

Time:: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: General Pierre Koenig 37, Jerusalem, Israel

Description: Many genealogical researchers regret not getting important information from relatives when they still had the opportunity to do so. Now, here’s a chance to “listen in” to many aspects of family life going back in time to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries .

What did the Early Moderns (1500-1750) think about children? Their role in the family, the
larger community?

Additional topics, among many, include the roles of women and girls; life long relationships between grown children and their parents; daily rituals in the home; developments in the Jewish educational system; life cycle events; what is a “wimple”?; what is the unique Ashkenazi custom “hollekreisch”?

Our presenter for this special program is Tali Berner PhD She has a doctorate in Jewish
History from the Hebrew University, specializes in Childhood Studies and Early Modern
Ashkenazi Culture and is on the faculty at Tel Aviv University. Her research concentrates on Jewish communities of Central Europe plus Eastern, Western Europe and Italy.

Please plan to join us for a chance to be “a fly on the wall” and overhear about family
patterns, customs and lifestyles in days very long gone by. This is an opportunity to connect some of the dots with later and/or our own customs and traditions.

Time:: 21:00 - 22:00

Location: Webinar live from Salt Lake City

Time:: 20:00 - 21:00

Location: Webinar live from Salt Lake City

Time:: 20:00 - 22:00

Location: Susan Edel House in Petach Tikva, contact us for address [email protected]

Description: We have the honor of hosting a internationally known guest from England, Jeanette Rosenberg. Although her fields of particular interest are German and English, she is an expert in all fields of genealogy.

The meeting will be held at the home of Susan Edel on February 13 at 8 p.m.

We hope that all of you will attend this meeting. Please note it on your calendars and inform us if you will attend.

Sincerely,
Gilda and Susan

Jeanette Rosenberg is a Professional Genealogist and member of AGRA, (Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives). She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Genealogical Studies from Strathclyde University. Jeanette is a frequent researcher at archives in Germany, where she has participated in local history seminars. She is also a popular Jewish genealogy speaker around the UK. Jeanette was appointed to the GerSig Coordinating Committee in 2009 and is involved in JGSGB, (Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain) leading on Education & Mentoring, managing exhibitions, and convening JGSGB’s German SIG. A member of the Society of Genealogists and Anglo-German Family History Society, Jeanette is also a Guild of One Name Studies member, researching NEUGARTEN.

Time:: 20:00 - 21:30

Location: Beit Fisher, 5 Klausner Street, Raanana

Description: Dr Emmanuel Segal, 6th-generation descendant of Rabbi Avraham Wolfensohn, who settled in Safed in 1809, as one of the first three groups of Gaon disciples to settle in the Holy Land, will describe his genealogical journey to trace descendants of this family, the Vilna Gaon's concept of 'geulah' (redemption) and changes in Europe in the 19th century.

Admission: free for IGRA members, NIS 20 for non-members. Info: [email protected].
Time: 8pm – note later time than usual

Time:: 20:00 - 21:30

Location: Ad'ad #6, Omer, Israel

Description: Yair Ben Uri will speak about his family; particularly about his Father's family, which has organized lists that go back for a few generations. He will tell about hhis Father and his various architectural projects, sketches, and research in Biblical Hebrew.

Time:: 20:00 - 22:00

Location: Rehovot, Israel

Description: Her talk will cover the research she has undertaken on her family origins in eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on Vitebsk, now in Belarus, and Rezekne in Latvia. During the course of her research, she consulted various archives in Israel and overseas for the purpose of gleaning information relating to the places where her ancestors lived.

Time:: 19:30 - 21:30

Location: Beit Shalom, 2 Shir St. Tel Aviv, Israel

Description: Language: English
An overview of the WIRTH group, a group of over 120 Jewish individuals who are related through DNA and how they are pushing the envelope of Jewish genetic genealogy

Time:: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: General Pierre Koenig 37, Jerusalem, Israel

Description: This lecture will be broadcast live as a Webinar

Time:: 20:00 - 22:00

Location: Petach Tikva, Israel

Description: “BREAKING THROUGH BRICK WALLS”
Michael Goldstein, professional genealogist, President of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, past President of IGS, member of Board of Governors of JewishGen & also of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Michael will tell us about puzzles he has solved, and possibly find some breakthroughs in yours.

An effort will be made to pre-research your brick walls. Please describe in as many details as possible your brickwall & what you have done to try & overcome it. Include your phone number. Every effort will be made to discuss your brickwall, however you must be present at the lecture.

The lecture will be held on January 4, 2012 at the home of Gillian and Romy Lanzkron, Harav Kook 10, 1st floor, (corner Anna Frank/BenYehuda), Petach Tikva.

Time:: 20:00 - 22:00

Location: Ad'ad #6, Omer, Israel

Description: Kehilat Magen Avraham (Corner of Rehov Ad-Ad and Rehov Marganit) Omer, Israel
The lecture will be on the Cassuto family (Florence, Italy), and will concentrate on two areas:
1. The person of Professor Moshe David Cassuto, rabbi and researcher of the Bible (Florence, 1883) - Jerusalem (1951);
2. The life of the family during the Shoah and their Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael.
Shaul Baruchi - I am married to Osnat and the father of three children, live in Nitzan. I grew up in Kvutzat Yavne. I studied and received my rabbinical ordination in Yeshivat Hakibbutz Hadati at Ein Tzurim, where I also studied and worked in the Machon Michkar of the Yeshivah. Today I work in Torah research and I teach. I am a descendent of the Cassuto family from by way of my mother Sarah. My Grandmother was Hulda Campaniano from the House of Cassuto.

ההרצאה תעסוק במשפחת קאסוטו (פירנצה, איטליה), ותתמקד בשני תחומים: א. דמותו של פרופ' משה דוד קאסוטו, רב וחוקר המקרא [פירנצה תרמ"ג (1883) – ירושלים תשיב (1951)]. ב. קורותיה של המשפחה בזמן השואה ועלייתה לארץ.

שאול ברוכי
אני נשוי לאסנת ואב לשלושה ילדים, גר בניצן. גדלתי בקבוצת יבנה. למדתי והוסמכתי לרבנות בישיבת הקבוץ הדתי בעין צורים, שם גם לימדתי ועבדתי במכון מחקר של הישיבה. היום אני עוסק במחקר תורני ובהוראה. אני צאצא של משפחת קאסוטו מצד אמי שרה, וסבתי חולדה קמפניינו לבית קאסוטו.

Time:: 19:30 - 21:30

Location: The Conservative Synagogue, 8 Borochov St., Raanana

Description: This month we have a great treat for all the history buffs!

We are delighted to welcome back Professor Jonathan Goldstein from the University of West Georgia.

Last year he had us enthralled when he spoke about the Jews of Harbin, Manila and Singapore. This year, his subject is about Japan: From Erratic Contact to Recognition to Boycott to Normalization. Professor Goldstein will trace the history between the Japanese and the Jews, and in particular since the Japanese were part of the Axis partners with Hitler during the war and played a double role in regards to the Jews.

The lecture will be on Wednesday December 28th at 7.30pm.