Brandeis Magazine

Lauren Becker has been working in San Francisco’s nonprofit and education sector since graduation. She is currently director of annual giving and alumni relations at San Francisco Day School. Sarah Gaby welcomed her first child in March and, shortly thereafter, defended her dissertation on how organizations engage and politicize youth. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Ben Gellman-Chomsky wrapped up his second season as the radio voice of the Salem Red Sox, the High-A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, in Roanoke, Virginia. During his career, he has called more than 600 professional baseball games. Ashley Hinds is pursuing a master’s in social work at Fordham University. Lauren (Shapiro) Jassil is now clinical director of integrated outpatient services at the Colorado community mental-health center where she’s worked for the past five years. She recently completed a Birthright trip to Israel as part of the organization’s first group of 27- to 32-year-olds. Binny Kagedan is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. He reports he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Rebecca (also a therapist), and his irresistible toddler, Beatrice (not yet a therapist). Cindy Kaplan married David Abrookin on May 28 in Tarrytown, New York, in a ceremony officiated by Rabbi Peretz Chein, of the Chabad House at Brandeis. The couple was surrounded by friends and family, including Elyssa Cherney, Sharon Shenhav, Alison Schwartzbaum, Kimberlee Bachman, Jessica Tauber ’09, Yael Asen, Alex Asen ’06, Alan Cherney, Matt Brookner, Alana Moses, Maggie Korn, Mindy Lipson, Hannah Brilling, Estee Fleisch­man, Josephine Bibby and Jill Seplowitz Anesh. New York City resident Raphael Marcus is the author of “Israel’s Long War With Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire,” published by Georgetown University Press in 2018. The book is the first complete military history of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Jessica (Schambach) Zoccali and husband Joseph ’06 welcomed their daughter, Gemma Grey, on Oct. 27, 2017.