Tuesday, October 29
12 p.m.
Congregation B’nai Israel, 6525 Sylvania Ave.
$5 – includes kosher luncheon and author presentation
$15 – includes kosher luncheon, author presentation, and book 

(Generously funded by Jewish Senior Services Supporting Organization)

Relinquished is the real-life story of Robert Yaffe as he traverses the long and often rocky road to discovering his birth parents. Covering over thirty years of painstaking research, Relinquished is the story of an adoptee brought up in a Jewish household by loving and caring parents, as his Jewish birth mother so deeply desired and requested when she gave Robert up for adoption and signed the papers relinquishing all her rights. Follow Robert as he wrestles with astounding findings and painful conflicts that at times lead to intense guilt, family conflict, and emotional trauma.

Robert Yaffe is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. He began his career as a JAG Officer in the Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps, where he served as Trial Counsel (prosecutor) and Chief of Military Justice at Fort Lee, Virginia. Robert entered a second career in 1986 in Jewish communal service, serving as an executive director of Jewish Community Centers and synagogues in Toledo, Columbus, Winnipeg, and Chicago. Bob came to Toledo in 1989 as the Assistant Executive Director of the Toledo JCC. In 1992 he was promoted to Executive Director and served for four years until taking the executive director position in Winnipeg in 1996.

While in Toledo, Bob met his future wife Rita, who was working at the JCC at the time. They were married by Rabbi Ed Garsek at Congregation Etz Chayim in November 1990. Bob and Rita have a blended family of four adult children living in Omaha, Columbus, and Ra'anana, Israel. They have ten grandchildren. Bob and Rita both retired in 2014 and moved from Chicago to Omaha, where they reside today.

RSVP by Monday, October 14 https://form.jotform.com/jewishtoledo/jfgtprograms or to Sherry Majewski at 419-724-0351 or sherry@jewishtoledo.org.