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Class Notes: 1990s

1990

Judith Libhaber Weber
4 Augusta Court
New City, NY 10956
1990notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Marc Borodin
Fairfax, Virginia
Borodin and his wife, Alexandra, welcomed a son, Weston, on May 11. He writes, “For the past thirteen years, I’ve lived in the Washington, D.C., area, practicing environmental law for the government. Since 2000, I’ve worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section.”

Jessica Miller
Groton, Massachusetts
Miller and her husband, Alan, welcomed a son, Jacob Adam, on July 16. His big brother, Gabriel, five, is thrilled.

Lee Ryan Miller
Modesto, California
Miller and his wife, Beth, welcomed a daughter, Brenna Esmée Au, on June 8.

Paul Ruggerio Namaste
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Namaste and his wife, Nina, welcomed a daughter, Samira, on December 15, 2006. Samira made a grand entrance by not waiting to go to the hospital, and was delivered in the Namaste family living room by Mom, Dad, and a very helpful 911 operator.

Wendy Shlensky
Huntington Station, New York
Shlensky writes, “During the last two years, I have moved from the Boston area to Long Island, gotten married, and switched jobs. Life is ever-changing and very exciting.”

1991

Andrea C. Kramer
Georgetown University
113 Healy, Box 571250
Washington, DC 20057
1991notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Phillip Alan Bahar
Minnetonka, Minnesota
Bahar and his wife, Keri, welcomed their third child, Talia Saltzman, on November 20, 2006. Tali is a doll and joins Zachary, four, and Chana, three.

Matthew Breman
Watertown, Massachusetts
Bremen writes, “My wife, Rachel Blankenstein Breman ’96, and I recently moved to the Boston area after completion of my two-and-a-half-year tour as Peace Corps country director in Cape Verde. I am a senior manager for a Boston-based national nonprofit called Citizen Schools (www.citizenschools.org), and Rachel is a program officer for a Waltham-based nonprofit, working on maternal and child-health issues in the Dominican Republic.”

Carmen Bumgarner and Kevin Cameron ’88
Ballwin, Missouri
Bumgarner and Cameron adopted Dexter Lang on July 5. He was born February 18, 2006.

Amy Schomer Greenbaum
Pittsburgh
Greenbaum, a rabbi at the Beth Israel Center in Pittsburgh, was recently selected as one of the city’s “Top 10 Moms of the Year,” and was featured in an article in the online magazine Whirl. She and her husband, Rabbi Alex Greenbaum, have three sons and are in the final stages of adopting a daughter from China.

Hedy Helfand
Chicago
Helfand writes, “I am a bilingual school counselor in the Chicago public schools. I married Patrick Kelly in 2005, am stepmother to Sean and Gabrielle, and mother to Rowan, born in February. Life is good!”

Larry Kahn
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Kahn writes, “My wife, Risa, and I are now the parents of two children, Benjamin Sloan, who was born on May 1, 2004, and our newest addition, Arielle Nicole, who was born March 12. We are involved in several community organizations and are active golfers. I am a managing partner of New Dimensions in Technology in Salem, a high-technology recruiting and executive search firm serving New England, Silicon Valley, and the Pacific Northwest. Risa and I had the pleasure of attending my 15th Reunion in June 2006, where I had the chance to catch up with so many great people whom I had not seen since graduation. We look forward to the next one. I would enjoy hearing from my former classmates. You can reach me at lk@ndt.com.”

Robin Kempf
Topeka, Kansas
Kempf was recently named inspector general of the Kansas Health Policy Authority Board. In the newly created position, she audits, investigates, and conducts performance reviews for the Medicaid program, MediKan, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, with the goal of rooting out Medicaid waste and fraud. She has been associate general counsel for the Kansas Board of Regents since 2005. She is married to Peter Haxton and has a daughter, Alison.

Jason Levine
Potomac, Maryland
Levine and his wife, Melissa, are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Sloane Hailey, on June 28 in Washington, D.C. Levine is a partner at the law firm McDermott Will & Emery in Washington.

Michele (Satz) Meisler
Hopkins, Minnesota
Meisler welcomed another child, Abigail, on May 4, 2006. The family recently moved to Minnesota, where Michele’s husband is the director of investments for Affiance Financial. They are excited to be relocating to an area where they have kin.

Arthur Nunes-Harwitt
Rochester, New York
Nunes-Harwitt writes, “My son, Seth, was born on June 3, 2006. At fourteen months, he is a cheerful toddler whose favorite word is ‘car.’ Some of Seth’s playmates include the sons of Gwen Leifer and Jeremy Goldman.”

Samantha Supernaw
Georgetown, Texas
Supernaw writes, “My partner, Margaret, and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our daughter, Shayna Elizabeth, on January 3. She is amazing! We were sorry to miss Reunion 2006, but I was too ill with all-day morning sickness to attend. After almost five years as a therapist at Helping Hand Home for Children, I accepted the position of sexual assault program director at Hope Alliance, a local agency serving survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.”

Amanda Trigg
New City, New York
Trigg was named partner in the law firm Lesnevich & Marzano-Lesnevich, which has offices in Hackensack and Manhattan. She was also named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers of New Jersey magazine. Trigg practices exclusively family law.

1992

Lisa Davidson Fiore
34 Van Ness Road
Belmont, MA 02478
1992notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ellen Bloom
Falls Church, Virginia
Bloom writes, “Our only child, Ethan, celebrated his first birthday in July. I’m lucky that I’m able to stay home with him because we’re both having a ball.”

Selena (Luftig) Cousin
Franklin, Massachusetts
Cousin welcomed a son, Benjamin Noah, on August 8.

Alison Goldstein Lebovitz
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Lebovitz was named the 2007 Chattanooga Woman of Distinction for her extensive involvement with volunteer projects and community leadership.

Joshua Slovin
North Easton, Massachusetts
Slovin has worked as the director of education at Temple Sinai in Sharon for the past eight years. He married Marci Raschal on July 3, 2005.

Jonathan Tunick
New York City
Tunick married Amy Paul on July 1 at Whitby Castle in Rye. He is a talent agent; books music, comedy, and lectures; and runs his own company, Main-StageProductions.com. His wife is vice president and director of client development at Alliance, an entertainment marketing agency. They live on the Lower East Side.

Jennifer Rogin Wallis
Fairfield, Connecticut
Wallis wecomed a son, Noah Edward, on June 20.

1993

Joshua Blumenthal
135 Edisto Court
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
1993notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Tobias Dienstfrey
Alexandria, Virginia
Dienstfrey and his wife, Elisheva, welcomed a daughter, Hadassah Lailey, on June 11. She joins brother Akiva, four, and sister Margalit, six. Dienstfrey is a high-school math teacher in Fairfax.

Beth Collier Groves
Washington, D.C.
Groves and her husband, Curtis, welcomed their second son, Harry Lucas, on June 5.

Heather McCallum Hahn
Takoma Park, Maryland
Hahn and her husband, Jim, welcomed a son, Kai-Jin Macallum, on May 19. Jim’s daughters, Sierra, thirteen, and Kira, nine, love having a baby brother.

Stephanie Lehman
New York City
Lehman recently joined the law firm WolfBlock as a partner in the private-client services group in the New York office. She focuses her practice on matrimonial law and related tax matters. Eight months before being asked to join WolfBlock, Lehman had started her own practice. She is engaged to Eric Schutzer, and a wedding date of December 15 has been set. Rabbi Michael Stanger will perform the ceremony, and Dina Poolin Lieser, Beth Berman Wechsler, Stacey Silver Blansky ’94, and Leslie Effron Levin ’94 will be in the wedding party.

Sue Lowcock, MM’98
Hong Kong
Lowcock writes, “I returned home to Hong Kong six years ago, and I am now working as a development manager at an early-intervention center. I have become a keen dragon boater and married a fellow paddler from Australia last year. I hope to start a family soon and return to the United States.”

Deborah Waller Meyers
Arlington, Virginia
Meyers published an article, “The United States Needs Immigrant Labor: Unauthorized Immigrants Are Only a Symptom of an Outdated System,” in Americas Quarterly. She is designing seminars for senior ministry officials in the Mexican government on behalf of the Migration Policy Institute.

Yfat Reiss
New York City
Reiss married Bradley Howard Gendell on May 12 in Lenox, Massachusetts. She is a founder of Foundry Literary & Media, a literary agency in New York. Previously, she was a literary agent at SharpMan Media, an author-development company that she originally founded as a book publisher in 1998. She has also written several women’s health books with her father, an obstetrician and gynecologist. Her husband is a hedge fund manager at Cumberland Associates, an investment advisory company in New York. He is also chairman of JazzReach, a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting the appreciation of live jazz.

1994

Sandy Kirschen Solof
108 Cold Spring Road
Avon, CT 06001
1994notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jeffrey Davis
New York City
Davis and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed a son, Mason Alexander, on May 20.

Josh Freed
Washington, D.C.
Freed left his post as administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews to become a vice president at the political consulting and advertising firm Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns, and Associates, where he will focus on clients in the social-advocacy and foundation realm.

Karin Haberlin
East Hartford, Connecticut
Haberlin married David M. Wilson on November 11, 2006, at the historic Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. She is a research analyst at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Her husband is a senior Medicare auditor with Mutual of Omaha. The couple met through mutual friends who shared their love of science fiction and fantasy.

Rachel Loonin
Bronx, New York
Loonin gave birth to her third child, Ezra Menachem Zion, who joins four-year-old Nistar and two-year-old Elimelech. Loonin and her husband, Joshua Steinerman, are living it up in the Bronx and recently became the proud owners of a minivan.

1995

Suzanne Lavin
154 W. 70th Street, Apt. 10J
New York, NY 10023
1995notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jennifer (Jacobs) and Barry Berk
Needham, Massachusetts
The Berks welcomed a daughter, Serena Robin, on July 7.

Wendy (Morris) and Marc Berliner
Westwood, Massachusetts
The Berliners welcomed their second child, Jacob Daniel, on July 20. Jacob is clearly a Red Sox fan, as Wendy went into labor at Fenway Park during the first inning of a game against the White Sox. After a cab ride to the hospital, everything proceeded smoothly, which couldn’t be said for the Red Sox. The family writes, “Although the Red Sox lost the game, in the end we are certainly the winners.”

Rachel (Frankel) and Richard Greenfield
New York City
The Greenfields welcomed a daughter, Hannah Leah, on August 3.

Francyne Davis Jacobs
Houston
Jacobs, a cantor at Congregation Beth Shalom in Bryan, Texas, was recently named a GenNEXT winner by the Texas-based Jewish Herald-Voice, an honor given to Jewish community leaders in their twenties and thirties. In addition to her duties at Beth Shalom, Jacobs co-leads the Shabbat Yachad service at Congregation Beth Yeshurun and helps lead services at congregations Emanu El and Beth Yeshurun. She is married to Kevin Jacobs.

Michael Levison
New York City
See Jennifer Lorell Levison ’99.

Michael Papper
Holden, Massachusetts
See Michelle Harel Papper ’98.

Sabra Sasson
New York City
Sasson relocated her law office from Long Island to the Lincoln Building. Her practice focuses on commercial and residential real-estate transactions; landlord-tenant, estate-collections, family, and divorce mediations; and general practice. She has also moved her residence from Long Island to the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Alison (Wyner) Strong
New York City
Strong was elected to membership in the New York law firm Cozen O’Connor. She practices in the business-law department and focuses on real-estate law. She was also designated as a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer—Rising Star” in 2006 and was named one of “25 Women on the Verge” by the Legal Intelligencer/Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

Jessica Weiss-Schwartz
Stamford, Connecticut
Weiss married Michael Schwartz in April 2003 in New York City. Their son, Jared, celebrated his first birthday in July.

Aryeh Zarchan
Scarsdale, New York
Zarchan was elevated to partner in the corporate finance and securities practice in the New York office of Sidley Austin. His practice focuses on corporate and securities transactions, with an emphasis on capital raising through public offerings and private placement of securities.

1996

Janet Lipman Leibowitz
29 Pond Street, #9
Sharon, MA 02067
1996notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

My husband, Mark, and I welcomed our first child, Noam Yehudah, on June 3. I love being at home with my son. When my maternity leave is over, I will return to work as a clinical psychologist.

Jennifer Adler
Providence, Rhode Island
Adler became director of communications at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in April.

Becky Sternberg Aronchick
Seattle
Aronchick welcomed her first child, Henry Peter, on July 8.

Ramon C. Barquin III
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Barquin, who is pursuing a PhD, is the author of management texts and is writing two books about Cuba.

Rachel Blankenstein Breman
Watertown, Massachusetts
See Matthew Breman ’91.

Amanda Scampoli Bray
Raynham, Massachusetts
Bray welcomed a son, Evan Scott, on October 11, 2006.

Garen Corbett
Newton, Massachusetts
Corbett writes, “In June 2006, I moved from Florida back to Boston with Stacey Stein ’99, MBA’05. I also returned to Brandeis, accepting a position as deputy director of the Health Industry Forum at the Heller School and associate director for the new master’s in public policy program. I really enjoy the policy-analysis work and the interaction we have with a broad range of health-care stakeholders, but it’s truly a perk to be back at Brandeis after a decade away.”

Danielle Friedman
West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Friedman married Adam Dehner on June 10 on the beach at the Groton Long Point Yacht Club in Groton Long Point, Connecticut. The couple met because Dehner is the brother-in-law of Friedman’s best friend. Friedman earned a master’s degree in nursing from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and is a pediatric nurse. Dehner teaches special-education classes at the Lunenberg School in Mattapan. He is also a studio musician, record producer, and lead guitarist in three area bands. He enrolled at Suffolk University Law School this fall.

Hope Frisch
Minneapolis
Frisch married Jeremy Kalin on August 12. In attendance were fellow Brandeisians Jason Porth, Abby Michelson Porth ’97, Jennie (Nuger) Goldfarb, and Dan Goldfarb.

Jessica Kopito Giddings
Great Neck, New York
Giddings married Harris Giddings in October 2004. She is a designer handbag specialist at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Laura Nell Hodo
Salt Lake City
Hodo finished her residency in family medicine in June 2006 and now works for a local community health center. The center’s patients are predominantly poor, uninsured or underinsured, and do not speak English.

Daja Meston
Newton, Massachusetts
Meston’s memoir Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness was published in March. Abandoned by his American parents to a Tibetan monastery at the age of six, Meston describes his journey from a child monk to a political symbol of freedom. In his twenties, Meston survived a desperate escape from Chinese interrogations, an event that became an international incident and propelled him into the media spotlight. Meston is now a human-rights activist and is married to Kim Dolma Meston ’05.

Cheri Jo Pascoe
Oakland, California
Pascoe and her partner, Megan Sheppard, welcomed their first child, Spencer Avery, on July 29.

Heather Austen Price
Cleveland
Price writes, “My husband, Adam, and I moved to Cleveland two years ago, and in January 2007 I gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. As I write this, they are four months old and the joy of our lives. I’m still working as a sales director, and Adam is still a middle-school teacher.”

Guy Raz
Washington, D.C.
Raz writes, “I’m back at NPR after leaving for two years to serve as CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent. I’m now the defense correspondent for NPR.”

Nancy (Fishman) and Brad Silverman
Irvington, New York
The Silvermans welcomed a boy, Jack Owen, on April 9. Brad practices law at Storch Amini & Munves, a leading litigation boutique in New York. Nancy is a risk-management consultant at Willis.

Sujan Talukdar
Arlington, Massachusetts
Talukdar married Jonathan White on April 29, 2006, in Topsfield. Former Brandeis chaplain and assistant dean Nathaniel Mays performed the service. Alumni in attendance were Amy Rosenberg, Julie Schwartz, Matthew Ball ’05, Edward Almeida ’95, Hugh Lacy ’95, Cornell Caines, David Twombly ’95, Jarrett Lovett ’97, and Ana Yoselin Bugallo ’03. Also attending was Erika Smith, director of the Transitional Year Program at Brandeis. From December 2002 until July 2006, Talukdar served as director of the Intercultural Center at Brandeis. She now works as the K–12 director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity program for the Brookline public schools.

1997

Joshua Firstenberg
5833 Briarwood Lane
Solon, OH 44139
or
Pegah Hendizadeh Schiffman
58 Joan Road
Stamford, CT 06905
1997notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Edward Albowicz
Linden, New Jersey
Albowicz was designated by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in New Jersey. The magazine highlights up-and-coming attorneys who are either under forty or have practiced for ten years or fewer. Albowicz, an associate at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, concentrates his practice primarily in banking, financial services, and corporate law. He also has an entertainment practice.

Rafael Blumenthal
New York City
Blumenthal is engaged to Elysa Jacobs. He is a college adviser at Ramaz School in Manhattan, and she is a senior project editor at McGraw-Hill. A June 2008 wedding is planned.

Ruben Cohen
New York City
Cohen finished his residency at Allegheny General Hospital in June and has relocated to New York City to practice as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Tara Cook-Littman
Fairfield, Connecticut
Cook-Littman writes, “I am very busy with three kids. It feels like yesterday that I was twenty-one and a senior at Brandeis. I blinked and had three kids. Spencer turned four in August. Ava Bailey was born on July 24, 2005. Grace Alexa was born on April 6. In my free time (and I can’t believe I have any), I am on the board of directors of Operation Hope, which is a homeless shelter and social-services agency in Fairfield. I am passionate about this organization and its purpose. It also keeps my mind working and allows me to use my legal degree while still being home with the kids. I very badly wanted to attend Reunion. I loved my years at Brandeis and often feel so sad that those days are over.”

Gela Wax Fuxman
Medford, Massachusetts
Fuxman and her husband, Shai ’99, are the proud parents of Nadav Samuel, born on June 29, 2006.

Avi and Jami (Bleichman) Josefson
Chicago
The Josefsons joyously welcomed twin girls, Orli Faye and Zoe Mina, on February 6. Big brother Gabriel is adjusting well.

Eric Kabakoff
Long Island City, New York
Kabakoff recently became the research director for WABC-TV in New York, where he is responsible for the analysis and dissemination of all the ratings for the most-watched television station in the country.

Amanda Mayer
New York City
Mayer married Gregory Alexander Robbins on June 23 in New York City. In attendance were Cheri Brisson Salazer, Justin Kattan, David Schaer, Melissa David ’98, and Geoffrey Grove ’98. Mayer recently received a diploma in culinary arts from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Robbins heads a commercial-lending group at Golub Capital, a finance company in New York.

Dina Rovner
Jersusalem
Rovner married Aharon Hadid of Mevaseret Zion on August 6, 2006.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Camperdown, Australia
Tsalolikhin married Natasha Kelly on April 28 at Terrigal Beach, two hours north of Sydney, in a beautiful ceremony involving elements of Judaism and Scientology. Tsalolikhin moved to Sydney on February 14 to be with Natasha, a sixth-generation Australian and an executive at an occupational health-and-safety-training firm. They met through the Church of Scientology and are both active in promoting human rights. Tsalolikhin can be reached at alex@lifesurvives.com and would enjoy hearing from his classmates.

Regina Volynksy Weisel
Stamford, Connecticut
Weisel and her husband, Jeffrey, welcomed a girl, Sabrina Marti, on January 19.

Nadav Zeimer
New York City
Zeimer teaches physics at an inner-city school in Brooklyn. He also runs an after-school robotics program. This year, his students (80 percent of whom live below the poverty line) took first place in a competition against robotics teams from more than sixty other New York City schools. If you want to know more about how robotics can bring science and engineering to inner-city teens, you can read a study conducted at Brandeis, or e-mail Zeimer at 354@gwestrobotics.com, and he’ll send you a free DVD.

1998

Alexis Hirst
58-19 192nd Street
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
1998notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Believe it or not, our 10th Reunion is in just a few months. It seems like only a short time ago that we got together for our 5th Reunion, let alone freshman orientation. Please mark your calendars and plan to be in Waltham June 6 to 8, 2008, for a terrific weekend. On a personal note, I married Richard Ludwig on July 1 at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. Brandeisians Dori Goldberg, J. D. Siegel ’96, Sara Marks, Nancy (Fishman) Silverman ’96, and Brad Silverman ’96 celebrated with us. I am a vice president in marketing, and Richard is a real-estate developer.

Jocelyn Auerbach
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Auerbach is engaged to Oren Klein, and the couple is planning a March 2008 wedding. She has opened her own law office and is practicing immigration and nationality law.

Ross Berger
Los Angeles
Berger served as a writer-consultant for the popular Internet show LonelyGirl15. In addition, he won first place in the Scriptapalooza TV-writing competition in the category of one-hour dramas for a spec script of the show "House M.D." (episode title “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”). He has dabbled in creating brain games, and had his first one, a hybrid of logic and pop-culture trivia, Name Metamorphosis, published in Games magazine in May. Berger is now writing a screenplay loosely based on a Homeland Security sting operation created to thwart homegrown drug trafficking within the U.S. military.

Ashley Blick
San Francisco
Blick married Ben Sternberg in September 2006. She has happily left the law and is teaching third grade at San Francisco’s Hamlin School for Girls.

Emily Brannen, MFA’99
Chico, California
Brannen writes, “I have moved back to my hometown, where I teach theater at Butte College, write features for the local weekly paper, and continue to write plays, which are performed here and in New York City.” She welcomed a son, Ian Emerson, on August 30. In the spring, she will resume teaching at Butte and begin teaching at California State University–Chico.

Jillian Cantor
Philadelphia
Cantor graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University on June 1. She completed a clerkship in psychiatry and will complete a residency in psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Amy Finstein
Framingham, Massachusetts
Finstein and her husband, Charles Schneider, welcomed their first child, Zachary Joseph, on January 25. Finstein is pursuing a doctorate in architectural history at the University of Virginia, where her research focuses on the impact of the automobile on architecture and urban design in the early twentieth century. This past fall, her article “Before the Big Dig: Boston’s Central Artery as a Construct of Mid-Century Modernity” won the Public Works Historical Society’s 2006 award for outstanding contribution to the history of public works.

Adam M. Greenwald
Valencia, California
Greenwald is director of development for the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Laura Dawn Hacker Greenwald ’99, welcomed a daughter, Ayla Eden, on September 1.

Wendy Stein Harsfield
Sharon, Massachusetts
Harsfield writes, “I am taking time off from work as a special-ed teacher working with kids on the autism spectrum to stay home with my eighteen-month-old son, Matthew. My husband, Scott, and I are expecting another child in December.”

Alexander Heckler
Weston, Florida
Heckler married Tiffany Zientz on June 2 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami. He is a lawyer with Shutts & Bowen, a Miami law firm, and represents companies that do business with the government. He is also a national finance committee member for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. Heckler is in charge of fundraising at the Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade County, a nonprofit organization that distributes grants to programs that help girls and women.

Artemio Jongco III
Bronx, New York
Jongco defended his dissertation in September 2006 and is completing his fourth year of medical school as part of the medical scientist training program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Michelle Harel Papper
Holden, Massachusetts
Papper and her husband, Michael ’95, welcomed a son, Zachary Alexander, on May 9.

Abrah Salk
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Salk married Mark Zion on August 12. Leonie (Weiss) Kahn was in attendance. Salk runs the IT department at Coastline Elderly Services in New Bedford.

Jared Wasserman
Brookline, Massachusetts
Wasserman welcomed a son, Noah Alan, on August 22.

1999

David Nurenberg
20 Moore Street, #3
Somerville, MA 02144
1999notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ari Bloom
Boston
Bloom writes, “I recently moved back to Boston to attend Harvard Business School. It’ll be fun to be back in school, and I am looking forward to a few more years in Boston. I’ve spent the past eight years in corporate retail while living in San Francisco and New York City. I worked in apparel as director of merchandising with Gap Inc., and also in home goods as a buyer with Williams-Sonoma’s West Elm brand.”

Laura Dawn Hacker Greenwald
Fort Defiance, Arizona
See Adam M. Greenwald ’98.

Ron Karni
St. Louis
Karni is in his last year of an otolaryngological residency at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He married Mollie Gordon, a psychiatry resident, on February 7, 2004. The couple welcomed a son, Jacob Eli, on March 6.

Jennifer Lorell Levison
New York City
Levison married Michael Levison ’95 in 2005, with a wedding party that included eight Brandeis graduates. Levison writes, “Little did we know, our paths crossed years earlier when Mike graduated with my sister. They even sat next to each other at the history department mini-commencement ceremony. It took another eight years for us to meet.” The Levisons welcomed a son, Nathaniel Joseph, on April 3. Mom, dad, and baby are doing great.

Debra (Gutis) Milgram
Boston
Milgram and her husband, Eitan, welcomed a son, Ranon Izzy, on February 13.

Eric Pound
Malden, Massachusetts
See Heidi Bornstein ’04.

Stacey Stein, MBA’05
Newton, Massachusetts
See Garen Corbett ’96.

Erik Sylvin
New York City
See Allison Cohen ’01.