The speaker will address some of the following questions
followed by Q&A:
The Roots and historical highlights
of the Sephardi community.
Why such an influence on the rest
of our community?
The role of key Sephardi families
from Maimonides, Montefiore, Safra,
Khedourie and Sassoon, to name a few.
Why there is Sephardi Chief Rabbi
and an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi?
Ben Ezra Synagogue Cairo built 1030
Alain Farhi was born in Egypt and now lives in New York – Retired businessman with passion for genealogy especially Sephardi history for over 40 years . A Founder of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy . His website Les Fleurs de l ’Orient currently documents over 147,000 families and 325,000 names. The link to his speeches and published papers.
Famed etching of one of the early relatives in Alain Farhi’s family tree (standing with blue turban and red jacket). Haim El Mualim Farhi (1740-1820) in the Court of El Jazzar governor of Sidon Palestine between 1795 and 1804
Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue Mumbai India built 1860
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