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2000

Matthew Salloway
304 West 92nd Street, #5E
New York, NY 10025
2000notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Joshua LeRoy
West Palm Beach, Florida
LeRoy married Sara Jones on April 14 at Sweetwater Branch Inn in Gainesville. After Brandeis, LeRoy attended the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. He is now employed by the Palm Beach County Office of the Public Defender. Jones is also a lawyer and works for the State of Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit.

Michelle Rubino McSweeney
Portland, Maine
Rubino married John McSweeney on May 5 in New Hampshire. In attendance were David Salama, Joy Budewig Harms ’99, Merissa Wintner, and Sarah (Kahn) Samnick.

Joshua Sunshine
Columbia, Maryland
Sunshine married Dara Neuman on March 25 in Rockville, Maryland. Sunshine earned a master of arts in teaching and a certificate of advanced graduate study in school administration and supervision from Johns Hopkins University. He is working as a high-school assistant principal in Rockville. Neuman is an internal medicine resident at Hopkins.

Jennifer Weiner
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Weiner married Bryan Kaczmarek on April 29 at the Grand Marquis in Old Bridge. Alumni in attendance included Emily (Romoff) Bronstein, Sharon Meiri Fox, Ari Fox ’99, Jennifer Grief Green, Dan Green ’99, Debra Rafson, Ilana Blatt-Eisengart, Proma Paul, and Amy Lurie ’01.

Rachel Zitsman
New Rochelle, New York
Zitsman married Andrew Messinger on July 29 in Farmingdale. Zitsman is a mathematics teacher at Ramaz Middle School, a Jewish day school in Manhattan, and director of the Division for Older Children at Bank Street Summer Camp, a day camp in Manhattan. She is a candidate for a master’s degree in adolescent mathematics education at Hunter College. Messinger is an associate for corporate law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, a Manhattan law firm.

2001

WenLin Soh
5000 C Marine Parade Road, #12-11
Singapore 449286
or
Class of 2001
MS 124 Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
2001notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Wendi Adelson
Tallahassee, Florida
Adelson writes, “My husband, Danny Markel, and I just finished up a year in Miami and are back to the thriving metropolis that is Tallahassee. I am an adjunct professor at Florida State University Law School and director of the antihuman-trafficking program. We will spend our weekends fighting off the alligators, hiking, biking, and sampling local produce from TomatoLand.”

Joel Christensen and Shahnaaz Nistar
Queens, New York
Christensen and Nistar were married on June 24 in Middletown, Connecticut. In attendance at the wedding were fellow Brandeisians Jake Millette, Nick Gannon, Timothy Gerolami ’99, Sara Hellmold ’00, Gerry Carroll ’96, Aaron Ostrow ’07, and classics professor Leonard Muellner. Christensen received a doctorate in classics from New York University and recently started a job at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Nistar has entered her final year of dental school at Columbia University.

Allison Cohen
New York City
Cohen married Erik Sylvin ’99 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Rose Hall, Jamaica, on May 19. The ceremony was performed by Cohen’s Brandeis roommate, Rabbi Bhat Weiss. Other Brandeisians in attendance were Chari Cohen, Scott Hirshson, Jennifer Rosengarten, Jessica Kagen, Lisa (Noik) Genser, Ilana Brand, Pooja Patel, Ariella Soffer, Brooke Wallock, Christos Tsiamis ’99, and Rich Miller ’99. The couple honeymooned in Tahiti. Cohen works at Lehman Brothers in fixed-income middle-market sales, and Sylvin is a surgical resident at Columbia University Medical Center.

Rachel Davis
Louisville, Kentucky
Davis bought her father’s dental practice on February 23 and has been busy being a dentist and business owner. The practice’s new name is Davis Dental Center, in Louisville. The Web site is davisdentalcenter.net.

Diana Coben Einstein
New York City
Einstein and her husband, Heath, are proud to announce the birth of a daughter, Levyn Anabelle, on July 30. Levyn was born a month early and weighed six pounds, six ounces. The Einsteins are thrilled to have her in their lives.

Seth Goldstein
New York City
Goldstein graduated from law school last year and is now working as in-house counsel for MusicNet, an online digital music-services company.

Laurel Johnson
Gates Mills, Ohio
Johnson is featured as Lucy Cali opposite Donnie Wahlberg on the Spike TV miniseries "The Kill Point." The eight-hour miniseries centers on a tense standoff as a group of Iraq veterans-turned-robbers takes hostages in a Pittsburgh bank, trying to figure out a way to evade the police who surround them. Johnson has also been featured as Christina in "Red Light Winter" and Lindsay in "Some Girl(s)," both at the Bang and the Clatter Theatre, and as Nancy in "Holy Ghosts" at the Beck Center.

Valerie Kolko
Carrboro, North Carolina
Kolko writes, “After Brandeis, I graduated in 2003 from Indiana University with a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs. I worked for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life for four years, two at Ohio State University and two at North Carolina. In July, I began a new position in the Office of Judicial Affairs at Duke University. This summer, I also served as production manager for Ten by Ten at the Triangle international ten-minute play festival here in Carrboro.”

Gabe Leibowitz
Brooklyn, New York
Leibowitz writes, “I am now full owner (managing director) of Aboveground Realty, and we’ve just moved to a new office at 26 East 33rd Street. We hope to have an even stronger presence in the Manhattan and Brooklyn sales and rentals real-estate market. If you or anyone you know is looking to rent or buy an apartment (or rent out or sell a property), we’d be thrilled to assist. Please have them contact me (gabe@abovegroundrealty.com) and mention your name, and I’d be happy to give them a discount. Hope to hear from old friends soon, whether it’s to grab coffee or talk real estate.”

Amy Leichtner
Brooklyn, New York
Leichtner married Dan Deutsch on May 27 in Needham, Massachusetts. Rabbi Sarah Reines ’90, MA’92, officiated. Brandeis alumni in attendance included Leichtner’s parents, Alan ’73 and Judith Siegel Leichtner ’73, Ari Bader-Natal, Liz Witkow ’05, Josh Turnof ’99, Jessica Braunfeld, Michelle Zeitler, Adam Marks ’00, Sarah Chandler, Jen Silber, Mindy Milberg ’74, Brian Eisenstein ’97, Robbi Nahum ’76, Barbara Silverstein Wolke ’73, Joe Wolke ’73, Meyer Drapkin ’74, and Phil  Benjamin ’73. Deutsch works for Moody’s Financial Services, and Leichtner is working toward a master’s degree in Jewish education at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Karen Lerner
Skokie, Illinois
Lerner married Brad Chenlin on August 5 in Chicago. Julie Fabricant and Noaa Rahav served as bridesmaids. Other Brandeis alumni in attendance were Alex Lerner, Adam Smoler, Rory Anderson, Jonathan Hanus ’02, and Joel Gorenstein ’98. Lerner works in fundraising for a large hospital and lives in suburban Chicago.

Adam Lieb
Springfield, New Jersey
Lieb is assistant director of the recreation department and Web site coordinator for the borough of Mountainside. He serves on the Democratic Party committees in Springfield and Union County. In August, he traveled to Alaska and British Columbia on a cruise.

Meaghan Morrison
Melrose, Massachusetts
Morrison married Morgan Rudolph on December 4, 2006, in the Virgin Islands.

Jessica (Jama) Nussenbaum
Paris
Nussenbaum writes, “After spending a year completing a master’s degree in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, I returned to Paris, where I married Adrien Nussenbaum in 2003. I have been working for the auction house Christie’s in Paris for three years, and am a sales coordinator for Latin American paintings and specially export between Paris and New York. I’d like to congratulate my classmate Jason Kohn for his documentary 'Manda Bala' and wish him all the success he deserves.”

Steven Pickman
Washington, D.C.
Pickman writes, “After two years in graduate school on the West Coast, I just finished my coursework at the UCLA/Getty master’s program in conservation of archaeological and ethnographic materials, during which time I served as the Camilla Chandler Frost Objects Conservation Intern at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. During that time, my wife, Nava, finished her MBA in nonprofit management. In order to complete my degree, we recently moved to Washington, D.C., so I could accept an offer to become the Neukom Family Foundation Intern at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for 2007–08.”

Noaa Rahav
Montclair, New Jersey
Rahav married Marc Stoler on March 18 in Tucson, Arizona. The bridesmaids were Rahav’s sisters, Maya (Rahav) Shifrin ’97 and Michal Rahav Herman ’95, as well as Karen Lerner and Trysa Shulman-Shy. Other alumni in attendance were Julie Fabricant, Brian Herman ’95, Michelle Herman ’93, and Laura Surwit ’98, MA’99. Rahav is working as a museum educator.

Rebecca Rausch
Brookline, Massachusetts
Rausch recently became associated with the Boston-based law firm Krokidas & Bluestein. She joins the firm’s health-law practice. She advises hospitals, community health centers, group-care facilities, special-education schools, nursing homes, and other health-care providers in a variety of litigation and transactional health-care matters.

Michael Schakow
New York City
Schakow is a student at the New York University School of Law. Over the summer, he completed judicial internships at the Supreme Court of Texas in Austin and with a federal district judge in Houston. In the winter, he will be chaperoning another Birthright Israel trip through March of the Living to Poland and Israel.

Rachel (Simonds) Segaloff
Waltham, Massachusetts
Segaloff writes that there have been many exciting changes in her life, including a new job working for Birthright Israel and buying her first house.

Mollie Shuman
Baltimore
Shuman was appointed chair of the Young Lawyers’ Division Council, Bar Association of Baltimore City (BABC). She previously served as secretary and chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Young Lawyers’ Division, as well as serving as an elected member of the executive council of the BABC. Shuman is an associate with the Baltimore law firm Wright, Constable, and Skeen.

Matthew Sieger
Flushing, New York
Sieger is training to be an anesthesiologist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. This is his second postgraduate year after Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he will have two more years of residency training after this year.

Michael Spiro
Philadelphia
Spiro, an attorney at Flaster/Greenberg’s office in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, received the 2007 Graduate Tax Faculty Award from Temple University School of Law. The award, granted annually to one graduating master of laws in taxation student, recognized Spiro for his outstanding academic achievement while at Temple. Spiro is a member of the estate planning, taxation, and corporate practice groups at Flaster/Greenberg.

Krishanthi Subramaniam
Rego Park, New York
Subramaniam, a doctoral candidate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been selected to attend the 2007 Kadner Institute. The institute is managed by the American Society for Microbiology and sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Its main objective is to provide intensive opportunities and experiences to promising young graduate students and postdoctoral scientists who may choose to pursue careers in microbiology. Subramaniam earned a master’s degree in immunology and microbiology at Einstein. She has published several papers and has served as an adjunct professor at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. She is also a member of the American Society of Microbiology.

2002

Hannah R. (Johnson) Bornstein
130 Tudor Street, Unit G
Boston, MA 02127
2002notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jason Cohen
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Cohen is in his second season as an associate counsel with the Minnesota Vikings, handling various legal and business affairs for the National Football League team. After graduation, Cohen spent six months volunteering with Right to Play in Zambia, an organization dedicated to health education through sport. He received a law degree from Rutgers in 2006.

Rachel Goldstein
New York City
Goldstein earned a doctor of medicine and master’s in public health from Mount Sinai School of Medicine on May 11. She was previously inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical school honor society. She also was selected for a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for a research project in hand surgery, and was the initial recipient of the Judith and Nathan Kase Prize for Humanities in Medicine. On July 1, she began her residency in orthopedic medicine at New York University Medical Center.

Dana Kaplan and Jake Rubin
Washington, D.C.
Kaplan and Rubin were married on September 3, 2006, in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. Twenty Brandeis alumni attended: Aaron Fischlowitz-Roberts ’03; Philip Shreiber; Adam Frost ’02, MA’02; Ramneet Wadehra; Georg Muzicant ’02, MA’03; Jason Moloff; Doug Herman; Lex Friedman; Michael Corwin ’05; Lauren Stroger; Eli Friedman; Emily Randall Walker; Leda Blodgett; Erin Waxenbaum ’02, MA’02; Lisa (Katzen) Herman; Heather Davidson; Jon Latner; Ross Schulman; Robert Tanenbaum ’04; and Brad Dennison. Rubin is director of press advance for the Chris Dodd for President campaign, and Kaplan prosecutes child-abuse cases as an assistant attorney general for the District of Columbia.

Yanna Krupnikov
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See Adam Herman ’04.

Hinda Mandell
Berlin, Germany
Mandell, formerly editor of the Jewish Advocate in Boston, headed to Berlin in September for a journalism fellowship. As a McCloy Fellow, a program sponsored by the American Council on Germany, she is studying Jewish renewal in Germany and tensions within the Jewish community.

Ephraim Pelcovits
Atlanta
See Rachel Weber ’03.

David Zalkin
Houston
Zalkin writes, “After graduation, I came to Houston with the Teach for America program and taught science for two years in a local public school. I subsequently spent time in yeshiva in Jerusalem and later returned to Houston to begin medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, where I recently finished my second year. In July 2006, I married my lovely wife, Jessica. Classmate Joshua Berman braved the Texas summer heat to attend the wedding. Jessica works as an attorney for West Legal Publishing. We are quite active with our local shul community.”

2003

Caroline Litwack
325 Summit Avenue, #6
Brighton, MA 02135
2003notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Kara Fitzgerald
Houston
Fitzgerald started work this fall on a doctorate in neuropsychology at the University of Houston.

Lisa Josephson
Yonkers, New York
Josephson is engaged to Stewart Dolgoff. An August 2008 wedding is planned.

Miriam Kingsberg, MA’03
Berkeley, California
Kingsberg has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to continue her studies in Asian economic history in China next year. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of California–Berkeley.

Mara Michaels and Daniel Braunfeld
New York City
Michaels and Braunfeld were married on January 18 in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Michaels is director of education at Temple Shaaray Tefila in Bedford Corners, and Braunfeld teaches history at Facing History High School in Manhattan. The couple recently moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan after spending two years in Los Angeles.

Scott Milgroom
Dashoguz, Turkmenistan
Milgroom has been serving as a Peace Corps volunteer since October 2006. He teaches English at the American Corner, a resource center and library. He is also learning both the Turkmen and Russian languages. He plans to stay abroad until December 2008.

Phillip Reisman
Newton, Massachusetts
Reisman writes, “I now work as a Java/JLEE developer for uLocate Communications in Framingham. The company markets WHERE, a GPS-based location application for cell phones that allows users to look up local weather, events, driving directions, nearby restaurants, hotels, maps of their current location, and much more. I encourage everyone to check out www.where.com. We are constantly adding new widgets, and WHERE will soon be available on several carriers.”

Yaser Robles
Bronx, New York
Robles is a doctoral student in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, where he is teaching a course on Latin American culture this fall. He conducted research and worked as an intern at the College Board’s Government Relations Office in Albany during the summer.

Morgan Rosenheck and Solomon Sheena
Newton, Massachusetts
Rosenheck and Sheena were married on October 14 in New Jersey. The bridal party included Deborah (Sheena) Lincoln ’98, Yaser Robles, Rebecca Frisch, Robin Zebrowitz ’04, and Joshua Sheena ’08. Rosenheck graduated from New England School of Law in May. Sheena started a new job as a development officer for the Young Leadership Division at Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

David Silver and Rochelle Heller
Trenton, New Jersey
Silver and Heller were married at Capitale in New York City on August 18. The couple met the first week of freshman year in 1999 and have been together ever since.

Kate Tansey
Ithaca, New York
Tansey is working toward an MBA at Cornell University.

Eliza Agrest Varadi
Charleston, South Carolina
Varadi graduated with a medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and will do a residency in pediatrics as MUSC Children’s Hospital.

Sabrina (Assayag) Victor
Miami
Victor recently returned from a year in Israel and South Africa. In Israel, she worked at the Association of Rape Crisis Centers, providing legal and development assistance. In South Africa, she offered free legal counseling to Central African refugees seeking asylum in Cape Town.

Rachel Weber
New York City
Weber married Ephraim Pelcovits ’02 on June 11, 2006, in Atlanta. Alumni in the wedding party were Shira Silton, Michael Koplow ’02, and Levi Pinsky ’02. Other alumni in attendance included Deborah Lipstadt, MA’72, PhD’76; Barbara Rosenblit ’70; Samara Minkin ’94; David Brickman ’02; Tovah (Sherman) Koplow ’02; Rachel Wolkinson ’02; Anna Plunkett ’03; and Morty Rosenbaum ’03. The couple live in Manhattan, but will be traveling to Israel for Pelcovits’s rabbinical studies, and Weber will be working on a Fulbright grant there.

2004

Rebecca Incledon
21R Union Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
2004notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

In May, I vacationed in Morocco with Matt Mauro and Cari Brown ’05. We visited Susan Peterson, who spent a year teaching at the American Language Center in Rabat, and Drew Meyerson, who is a Peace Corps volunteer in Safi.

Heidi Bornstein
Malden, Massachusetts
Bornstein married Eric Pound ’99 on May 27 at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston. Bornstein earned a master’s degree at Boston University School of Public Health in May and now works for New England Medical Center in Boston. Pound earned a master’s and a doctorate from BU’s School of Medicine and is a medical resident at Boston Medical Center. The couple honeymooned on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Amanda Davis
Needham, Massachusetts
Davis married Brad Fernandes on August 26 in Boston. The couple met while working at New England Cable News. Davis recently started a new job at Channel 5.

Mehrun Etebari
Durham, New Hampshire
Etebari won $130,100 during a six-night run on "Jeopardy!" that ended May 31. He earned the seventh-highest total in the show’s history. He is pursuing a master’s degree in international relations at Yale.

Adam Herman
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Herman married Yanna Krupnikov ’02 on August 5 at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Brandeis alumni in the wedding party included Michaela May ’03, Brooke Ismach ’02, Janna Cohen-Rosenthal ’03, Joshua F. A. Peck ’02, and Alyssa Krop. Other Brandeis alumni in attendance included Steve Laferriere ’03; Joshua Brandfon ’05; professor Stephen Whitfield, PhD’72; Lee Whitfield ’90, MA’90, PhD’97; Ari Rabin-Havt ’01; Ana Yoselin Bugallo ’03; Jonathan Sclarsic ’03; Daniel Silverman ’05; Igor Pedan ’05; Marci Surkes ’03; Sara Horowitz; and Ben Brandzel ’03. Brandeis staff in attendance included Rick Sawyer, Alwina Bennett, Jean Eddy, and David Wisniewski. The ceremony was officiated by Rabbi Allan Lehmann, Brandeis’s former Jewish chaplain.

Rachel Kostegan
Methuen, Massachusetts
Kostegan married Adam Jussaume on July 22, 2006, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. David Michael, a former Brandeis chaplain. Alumni in attendance included Stephanie Levine, Audra Lissell, Danielle Fitzpatrick, and Michael Weinstein.

Sarah Lichtenstein
Boston
Lichtenstein is pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School.

Zachary Mabel
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mabel moved to Ann Arbor to pursue his dancing ambitions (jazz and break dancing) while attending the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

2005

Judith Lupatkin
200 W. 82nd Street, #5W
New York, NY 10024
2005notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

I completed NBC’s page program in March and accepted a position at USA Network working for the senior vice president of marketing and brand strategy.

Vanessa Anik
Calabasas, California
Anik earned a master’s degree in education and teaching credential from Pepperdine University. She is teaching ninth- and tenth-grade English at Bright Star Secondary Charter Academy in Southern California.

Oren Bachar
North Woodmere, New York
Bachar started a PhD program in school and clinical child psychology at Yeshiva University.

Ariele Bernard
Washington, D.C.
Bernard was accepted to the London School of Economics and Peking University dual master’s program in international relations. She will spend the first year in Beijing and the second year in London.

Matt Bettinger
New York City
Bettinger, Ori Blum, Michael Corwin, and Justin Peck recently held a reunion in the kitchen of 7 Banks Street. Bettinger is in his third year at Fordham Law School, Blum began at Northwestern Law this fall, Corwin is in his third year as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, and Peck recently left his position at a top-tier presidential campaign to begin a doctoral studies program in political science at the University of Virginia.

Leila Bilick and Reuben Posner
Washington, D.C.
Bilick and Posner were married on June 17. They are spending the year working for the Joint Distribution Committee in India.

Keren Salamon Birnbaum
Flushing, New York
Birnbaum welcomed a daughter, Heidi Brooke, on March 28.

Jason Cloen
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cloen graduated from the University of Michigan in December 2006 with a master’s in social work. He is a social worker at Arbor Hospice in Ann Arbor.

Ashley Firestone
New York City
Firestone graduated from New York University with a master’s in performing arts administration and subsequently accepted the position of special-events assistant at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Wendy Glaberson
Voorhees, New Jersey
Glaberson will complete a neuroscience program at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2008. She recently accepted a research position with the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania. She and Matthew Bial ’06 traveled to Israel in August for three weeks and will be moving to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in fall 2008.

Edward Greenberg
Rochester, New York
Greenberg worked the past two years conducting cancer research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He matriculated at the University of Rochester School of Medicine this fall.

Rebecca Hanus
Skokie, Illinois
Hanus graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work with a master of science in social work and a minor in law.

Nicole Katz
New York City
Katz, Maya (Cohen) Abitbol, and Ari Teman produced Sensi, an event and art auction to benefit Meir Panim Relief Centers in Israel. The event raised almost $500,000 and featured renowned auctioneer Simon de Pury. Artists included Brandeis alumni Alison (Beker) Judd ’04, David Elia, and Teman.

Aron Klein
Jerusalem
Klein and Keren Gorban ’07 were engaged in February and are planning a July 2008 wedding. They are both first-year rabbinical students at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and are living in Jerusalem for the year.

Ahron Lerman
Springfield, Massachusetts
Lerman worked on a biodynamic organic farm in Hawaii after graduating, spent some time on a family-owned cattle and sheep ranch in Montana last winter, and looked after a tree house and six Iditarod sled dogs in Clam Gulch, Alaska, over the summer.

Elana Lichtenstein
New York City
Lichtenstein works for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in New York, doing community development in southern Connecticut as a leadership-management director. She participates in the Hiatt Career Center’s Shadowing Experience program and is available to speak with those unsure about their post-Brandeis plans. E-mail Lichtenstein at elichten@alumni.brandeis.edu.

Brett Lowitz
Brooklyn, New York
Lowitz was promoted to assistant director of volunteer services at the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, New York City’s largest senior-services nonprofit organization.

Kim Dolma Meston
Newton, Massachusetts
See Daja Meston ’96.

Shanna Nussbaum
Oceanside, New York
Nussbaum married Dave Goldstein of Queens, New York, on August 30.

Samantha Papurt
Irvine, California
Papurt has moved to Southern California to pursue a master’s degree in social work at the University of Southern California.

Louis Pasek
Jerusalem
Pasek changed his name to Shaul Goldberg and has moved to Israel.

Nam Phan
Quincy, Massachusetts
Phan is a third-year student at Boston University School of Dental Medicine, and he still coaches the Brandeis men’s volleyball club. He’s looking for volunteer dental patients. Contact him at nam.m.phan@gmail.com.

Alissa Piasetski
Shanghai
Piasetski moved to Shanghai to study Mandarin and work as a marketing and public relations manager for a chain of health-care clinics. She notes that there are quite a few Brandeisians living and working in the Far East.

Jennifer Ross
Miami
Ross is engaged to Yuval Ezer ’07.

Karen Schreiber
New York City
Schreiber married Daniel Zwillenberg of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. She is also beginning her first year as a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Yanina Seltzer
Arlington, Virginia
Seltzer works at the Inter-American Bank in Washington, D.C.

Naomi Skop
New York City
Skop received a master’s in social work from Hunter College in May.

Jennifer Stella
Ebolowa, Cameroon
Stella has been a Peace Corps volunteer in the health, water, and sanitation program in Cameroon in Central Africa since October 2005. She works at a district hospital in a small village in the middle of the rainforest, doing public health work and outreach—HIV testing, work on nutrition, malnutrition, etc. She will be completing her service in December and plans to travel throughout Africa.

Tamara Lauterbach Sturges
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sturges is a student at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

Ari Teman
Teaneck, New Jersey
Teman cofounded JCorps, the Jewish Volunteer Network, in December 2006. The organization now has more than 1,200 members from some 100 colleges and universities across all continents, and is the largest Jewish volunteer network in the world. JCorps volunteers have served more than 10,000 meals and visited hundreds of seniors, as well as aided urban park and renewal projects. For more information, visit www.jcorps.org. Teman is CEO of 12gurus, an innovation firm that designs products, media, and Internet experiences for corporations. He also performs stand-up comedy at clubs around New York City.

Hayley Tozeski
New York City
Tozeski is attending Georgetown University Law School.

Alison Warren
Brooklyn, New York
Warren has started a master’s program in English at Teachers College at Columbia University. She expects to graduate in May 2008. She is also engaged to Saul Chernin of Cheam, England, and is planning a July 2008 wedding.

Jonathan Washington
Seattle
Washington finished a master’s in linguistics at the University of Washington this summer. In September, he headed to Kyrgyzstan for ten months on a Fulbright scholarship to study dialectal variation in the Kyrgyz language.

Nate Westheimer
New York City
Westheimer founded BricaBox last year, and the company will be launching its product at BricaBox.com this fall. He was also the alumni speaker to members of the Class of 2011 and their parents on August 26 at Brandeis.

2006

Carol Ortenberg
2 Oak Terrace #3
Somerville, MA 02143
2006notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

2007

Class of 2007
MS 124 Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
2007notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Yuval Ezer
Randolph, Massachusetts
See Jennifer Ross ’05.

Keren Gorban ’07
Jerusalem
See Aron Klein ’05.