Brandeis Magazine

Martin celebrated his 50th year as a licensed architect in New York. For the past two years, he has served as a member of an NYC Department of City Planning working group that seeks to protect and preserve the natural features, historic resources and neighborhood character of the Bronx’s Riverdale community. He recently established a new firm, MAZ Architects, which specializes in corporate space planning and interior design, residential retrofitting, synagogue design and senior residential barrier-free design.

Stephen Bluestone’s book “The Painted Clock and Other Poems” was published in March by Mercer University Press. The title poem is a dramatic meditation on the Treblinka death camp. Ron Carner has wrapped up his two-term, eight-year presidency at Maccabi USA. His wife, Talia, the former publisher of Savvy Woman magazine, will celebrate the publication of her latest book by HarperCollins in 2019. In March, Arthur Drache marked 50 years at the bar. He no longer sees clients but still goes to the office to offer his colleagues suggestions — “which are sometimes taken,” he reports — and writes a couple of newsletters. Wife Judy, a Holocaust survivor, remains active in academic areas related to Hungarian studies. The couple spent time in Ottawa last summer. Sculptor Dan Kurland has moved back to Charleston, West Virginia, where he is a Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia artist. Dorothy Shubow Nelson edited the anthology “The Inner Voice and the Outer World: Writings by Veterans and Their Families,” published by the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Writers Center, the result of five years of writing workshops that Dorothy led.