Class of 1961
Class Correspondent
- Martin Zelnik and Michael Schatz, P’87, G’18
- 1961notes@lists.brandeis.edu
Martin is a board member at the Brandeis-based National Center for Jewish Film, which locates, restores, houses and distributes historic Jewish and Yiddish films. His interest in Jewish and Yiddish films stems from the loss of many family members during the Holocaust and his early exposure to Yiddish culture on New York City’s Lower East Side. (The late Beverly Weinger Boorstein was a founding member of NCJF, and Sharon Pucker Rivo is a NCJF founder and executive director.)
Ed Feldstein visited Israel for the first time to celebrate his youngest granddaughter’s bat mitzvah. He and his wife, Judy ’63, have been married 55 years. Charles Kamen has retired from a career that included work at the National Opinion Research Center, the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, the University of Haifa, the University of Connecticut, and the 2008 Israel Integrated Census of Population and Housing. Today, he lives in New York City and translates for Machsom Watch, an Israeli organization protesting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Mark Shanis has retired from working at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina and is planning a move to the Philadelphia suburbs.
Submit a Class NoteEd Feldstein visited Israel for the first time to celebrate his youngest granddaughter’s bat mitzvah. He and his wife, Judy ’63, have been married 55 years. Charles Kamen has retired from a career that included work at the National Opinion Research Center, the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, the University of Haifa, the University of Connecticut, and the 2008 Israel Integrated Census of Population and Housing. Today, he lives in New York City and translates for Machsom Watch, an Israeli organization protesting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Mark Shanis has retired from working at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina and is planning a move to the Philadelphia suburbs.