Jewish family in area
is topic for Rheingold
and genealogy socoety
ALBANY–Fred Rheingold will discuss the history of the Jewish farming community in southern Rensselaer County at the Sunday, March 9, 2 p.m. meeting of the Jewish Genealogy Society of the Capital District. The meeting will be held at the United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, 184 Washington Ave. Ext.
Rheingold, who owns a farm in East Schodack, will begin by reviewing the farms of his ancestors and their contemporaries in the late 1800s and early 1900s before examining the decline of Jewish farming in the area in the 1940s.
Rheingold is a Hebrew school teacher and tutor at the Nassau Synagogue and a tutor for Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew University and Columbia University. He has served as ritual director for both Nassau Synagogue and The Synagogue at Malden Bridge.
The meeting is free and open to the public. For information, call Rema Goldstein, Society president, at 482-2898.
