Brandeis Magazine

Rebecca Goldblum and Daniel Zachs were married on Aug. 5 in Minnesota, surrounded by members of several Brandeis classes. Sujin Han won a silver medal in Olympic weightlifting at the 2018 Bay State Games. Mariah “Jack” Swiech Henderson is celebrating the two-year anniversary of coming out as genderqueer, being certified as a physician assistant and falling in love with another Brandeisian. Jack lives with partner Stephen Joseph Cadigan ’13 and works in adult primary care at Boston’s Faulkner Hospital. Ben Henig and Julia Jerusalmi ’13 welcomed their first child, whom they named Dembitz, in honor of the namesake of the university where his parents met. Louis Polisson and wife Gabriella Feingold ’14 have moved from White Plains, New York, to Wayland, Massachusetts, where Louis serves as the rabbi of Congregation Or Atid. (The parents of Adam Lapetina have already come to services at Louis’ synagogue.) With the support of a grant from the Hadar Institute of New York City, Louis and Gabriella recorded an album of original Jewish and spiritual music, released online in November. New York City resident Evan Rabin has a chess instruction company, Premier Chess, which runs programs at more than 30 schools, and corporate classes at law firm Kramer Levin and other organizations. Tess Raser, a sixth-grade teacher at the Dulles School of Excellence on Chicago’s South Side, has received a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching grant that will allow her to conduct research in Botswana. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of their academic and professional achievement, and demonstrated leadership potential. Last winter, Tess received national press coverage when she developed a “Wakanda curriculum” that drew on her Chicago students’ interest in the “Black Panther” movie to inspire them to learn more about African history. Rachel Salston was ordained as a rabbi by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in May. She lives in New York, where she serves as ritual director at the Park Avenue Synagogue.