Brandeis Magazine

Galia Golan-Gild has again retired from teaching, this time from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel (her first retirement was from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), although she continues to offer a graduate seminar, “Negotiating the Core Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Two books she co-edited will be published in 2019 as will a biography of her that’s part of a Springer Publishing series on academic pioneers. She will be honored by the International Studies Association with its 2019 Scholar/Activist Award. Marty Greenblatt and his wife, Linda, moved from Los Angeles to Sun City Anthem, an over-55 golf community in Henderson, Nevada. They live on the 18th fairway and are enjoying life in the desert. Gerald Guttell, P’86, G’22, and wife Barbara rented an apartment in Paris; he reports they “never seem to get enough of that city.” Their grandson Sammy, whose mom and dad are in the Class of 1986, is a Brandeis first-year and a member of the varsity soccer team. Sammy’s older sister, Maya, will graduate from Tufts in 2019. Suzanne Hodes is partnering with Art in Giving to raise money for cancer research through the sale of her paintings. See artingiving.com for more information. Susan Kahn has finished a manuscript on phonics, which she expects to be published in late 2018. She also reports that, despite hours and hours of hard work, the two dyslexia bills she advocated for, which had been submitted to the Massachusetts House and Senate, unfortunately did not become state law in 2018, because the House Ways and Means Committee failed to release the bills for floor votes. Aylene Kovensky-Gard is enjoying her second year of living in Lexington, Kentucky. She and her younger daughter made a brief pilgrimage to Slupca, Poland, Aylene’s father’s birthplace and the site of a WWII massacre. “We found my father’s and uncle’s birth certificates,” she writes. “They were the only ones to make it to America. All others in the family were murdered.” Lewis Lorton writes, “After the death of Jacque­­line, my wife of 36 years, I sold our home to travel for a few months and then plan to relocate to Manhattan (New York, not Kansas). My daughter is an NYC attorney who lives near Hudson, New York. My older son is with Google in San Francisco. My younger son is an allergist in Westchester County, New York.” Don’t miss Lew’s Turning Points essay about caring for his wife. Alan Sidman lives in the Park Slope, Brooklyn, brownstone he bought 50 years ago. He reports he and Sharman have been blessed with good health; 30 years of marriage; three children; and five grandchildren, three of whom live upstairs (the other two are in Chicago). He travels to inspiring places in Europe, Alaska and Hawaii, most recently taking a cruise to Iceland and Norway. Roberta Yaruss, Susan Handloff and Maggie Cohen held a mini-reunion in New York City to celebrate Roberta’s 80th birthday. Joyce Zaritsky writes that she is slowly adjusting to life as a widow after the loss of her husband, Avrom ’56, in December 2015. She works as a senior adviser for a program she founded at her former college, travels, is writing a novel and volunteers with the Miami-Dade Democratic Party. She has “four lovely granddaughters, who are a lot of fun — it’s much easier than having children. Who knew?” She’d love to hear from old friends at joycezarit@yahoo.com.