Brandeis Magazine

Bonnie Fredman Liss Holmberg, P’89, has moved to Southern California. “Still welding after all these years,” she writes. Elsa Lichman sings with Koleinu, the Jewish community chorus of Greater Boston; studies voice and performs in studio recitals; and has formed a guitar and vocal duo. She writes the twice-monthly “Nature in the City” column for the Waltham News Tribune as well as articles for the Natural Healing Journal. In early March, writer, critic and translator Roberto Márquez added a book titled “The Poet’s Prose and Other Essays: Race, National Identity and Diaspora in the Americas” to his list of published works. He and wife Madelaine Samalot Márquez ’69 escape the Amherst, Massachusetts, winters by traveling to Puerto Rico. Over the past year, Jerusalem resident Jonathan Porath published two articles in The Jerusalem Post and another in The New York Jewish Week. His email address is jporath1@gmail.com. Vineeta (Singh) Rai came to the U.S. from New Delhi at the end of May to visit her daughter and family for six weeks. During her stay, she was able to see her friend Arlene (Boshes) Hirschfelder ’65 for the first time since 1965. Vineeta writes, “It was truly wonderful to meet a person who had played such a major role in helping me settle into an unfamiliar milieu through her enormous support, compassion and understanding. It was so easy to chat with her, even though more than a half century had passed, and good to meet her spouse, the wonderful Dennis. I lead a semi-retired life but still serve as a director on a health-care industry board and on the executive committee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.” Vineeta hopes to connect with her friend Robin Dee Post soon. Allen Zerkin, P’02, teaches at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He’s also a strategic adviser/process designer/facilitator for a new initiative out of PlantPure Communities, a small NGO that hopes to advance human health, reduce disease and slow climate change by replacing animal-based eating with plant-based eating.