Brandeis Magazine

Bob Carroll and wife Ruthie Levi are still dividing their time between Jerusalem and New Jersey. Bob was recently elected to the governing council of the International Association for Religious Freedom and is board president of the Interfaith Encounter Association, the Holy Land’s largest faith-based peacemaking organization. In his spare time, he works on his photography, often in desert areas of the southwestern U.S. His photos will soon be featured in a Jerusalem gallery. Paul Alan Friedman is executive director of VTV (Virginia Tech Victims) Family Outreach Foundation. In April, he led a “parknership” with the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and Virginia Tech’s landscape architecture graduate program to create a living tribute to the 32 students and faculty killed by a gunman on April 16, 2007, as well as those who survived. The memorial tree grove currently features 49 trees. Stuart Rose has joined Mirus Capital Advisors, a leading Boston middle-market investment bank, as a partner. Stuart leads the firm’s e-commerce, multichannel and retail efforts, augmenting its growing consumer practice. Amy Rosenstein, who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, has had her own environmental consulting business for more than 10 years. She specializes in assessing chemical risks for humans and ecological receptors. She traveled to Israel this summer for work, supporting an environmental group opposed to a close-to-shore gas-processing platform. Amy’s son is a graduate of the UMass Isenberg School of Business, and her daughter is a senior at Lexington High School.