Robert Kasirer serves as the Manager of the Kasirer Family Office, where he established a national real estate investment and management company with a diversified portfolio spread across 12 states. In addition to this role, he is the President of the Kasirer Family Foundation (“KFF”), through which he maintains an active philanthropic presence. KFF focuses on supporting educational institutions and Jewish organizations. Its charitable giving has reached universities, schools, Jewish student groups, community organizations, and camps. Beneficiaries have included institutions in Pennsylvania, New York, and California, as well as Jewish programs and camps in various regions. These efforts reflect his ongoing commitment to strengthening education, Jewish identity, and community life.
In 2022, he created two nonprofit organizations—one in the United States and another in Israel—to build the Neshamah Platform and Neshamah App (“Neshamah”). Neshamah was developed as a digital space where music, Jewish learning, prayer, podcasts, videos, and short interactive experiences are available in one centralized platform. The experience is designed to feel personal, open, and welcoming to a wide range of users. Neshamah supports individuals and communities by offering white-labeled environments where organizations, synagogues, schools, camps, campus groups, and content creators can present their own materials within a shared library. The platform’s purpose is to help bring Jewish life into the digital age, fostering stronger connections and greater accessibility.
Robert is the son of Holocaust survivors whose lives were shaped by tragedy and resilience. His mother survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, while his father endured the hardships of forced labor. Most of their extended family members were killed at Auschwitz. Both originated from a small village in the Carpathian Mountains, an area now located within Ukraine. His father trained as a shoemaker and, after losing his own father at age 13, worked with an uncle to help provide for the family.
His parents met after liberation, married, and moved to Austria while waiting for permission to immigrate to the United States. During their stay there, he and an older sibling were born. A younger sibling was later born after the family finally arrived in Los Angeles, where they would begin a new life.
As committed Jews, his parents saw the importance of building a strong Jewish community in Los Angeles. When they arrived in 1954, the city had a small infrastructure of Jewish schools, synagogues, camps, and student communities. His parents helped establish a Jewish elementary school, founded a Jewish girls’ high school, and supported the creation of synagogues. Their philanthropy extended to Jewish institutions in other cities and in Israel, reflecting their profound belief in community-building.
Their guiding purpose was to ensure that the memory of the six million Jews lost in the Holocaust would never fade, and that future generations would remain committed to Jewish identity and tradition. This sense of mission shaped his upbringing. At age 13, Kasirer attended a Jewish boarding school in New York, where he studied both general subjects and Jewish learning. He continued his Jewish studies there while pursuing a university education.
He later attended a major university in New York before continuing to law school at another respected institution. After passing the New York bar, he moved to Los Angeles and formed a law firm with two colleagues. Their practice focused on public finance, and they served as Bond Counsel and Underwriters Counsel in transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars throughout the United States. After his time in private practice, he joined a large national law firm as Of Counsel and, in 1984, eventually partnered with his father.
Together, they built a real estate company specializing in acquiring, developing, and managing commercial properties, primarily shopping centers in the Los Angeles area. After his father passed away in 2005, he remained committed to operating and growing the business. Over time, his two sons and son-in-law joined the Kasirer Family Office and its subsidiaries. They now oversee daily operations while he continues to serve as Chairman, guiding the company’s long-term direction.
Kasirer's Jewish identity, shaped by his parents’ experiences and the lessons passed down through their survival, has influenced his outlook throughout his life. He often considers how Jewish communities have endured antisemitism and hardship across generations. For him, survival has depended not only on resilience but also on the ability to sustain meaning, tradition, and relevance as the world changes. Today, he sees a similar challenge in the digital era, especially as younger Jews often feel disconnected from long-standing institutions.
This belief led to the creation of Neshamah. The platform is intended to serve as the first comprehensive digital ecosystem for Jewish life. Its goal is to help individuals and organizations connect, discover, and grow in a space that supports learning, creativity, and community involvement. Neshamah aims to make Jewish content more accessible across different regions, levels of observance, and affiliations. It encourages a shift toward interconnected digital structures, long-term planning, and shared resources rather than isolated programs. Neshamah supports a model in which tradition and technology work together to foster belonging, identity, and engagement. For him, the project represents a continuation of the work his parents began—ensuring that Jewish life remains strong and meaningful for future generations.
He has been married for 48 years. He and his wife have four children and 13 grandchildren—7 boys and 6 girls. His interests include skiing, hiking, and traveling to explore different cultures, traditions, and landscapes around the world.
Robert Kasirer continues to apply the values learned from his family’s history to his work, philanthropy, and dedication to strengthening Jewish life, carrying forward a purpose shaped by resilience and commitment.
