Reclaiming Our Story: The Promise and Potential of Jewish Genealogy

JGSMI is proud to co-sponsor this year’s

Mary Einstein Shapero Memorial Lecture Series Presents Guest Speaker Jennifer Mendelsohn

Tuesday, June 27 at 6pm
Temple Beth El – The Leo M. Franklin Archives

6:00 PM Pre-Glow: For “Friends of the Jampel Center”
7:00 PM Lecture: Maas Chapel
8:00 PM Oneg/Nosh: Slotkin Foyer

Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills
Free & open to the community, registration required

Join Jennifer Mendelsohn, co-founder of the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History to learn more about the fascinating and empowering process of Jewish genealogical research. She’ll show how Jewish family research is unnecessarily shrouded in myths and misunderstandings, (have you heard the one about how the Nazis “destroyed all the records?” dealing an unfair blow to a community with an especially urgent need to understand and reclaim its past.

Her sleuthing has reunited long lost families, debunked decades-old family legends and unearthed poignant, hilarious and sometimes shocking revelations. She’ll also introduce you to the innovative use of genetic genealogy as a means to reclaim Jewish family history, including the founding of the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, which leverages the revolutionary power of commercial DNA testing to reunite families separated by the Holocaust.