Brandeis Magazine

Faye Pollack Cohen made aliyah in 1984, and met and married her husband, Dror, three years later. Their daughters are Meromi, a singer and voice teacher, and Miki, who recently married and is studying social work. Faye, who is retired, stays busy volunteering. She writes, “A year and a half ago, we learned that I had early-stage lung cancer. Me, the fanatic anti-smoker! I’m doing much better, but as anyone who’s had cancer knows, there’s always ‘scanxiety.’ Life does not play out like the script you thought you were following. I’d love to hear from long-lost friends and any new ones who’d like to get in touch.” Warren Feld was a guest instructor last fall on Jewelry Television and in June will be part of the Bead and Button Show faculty in Milwaukee. In February 2020, he will lead a Celebrity Cruises jewelry-making trip to Cozumel, Mexico (see warrenfeldjewelry.com for more information). He is writing a book titled “The Fluent Designer: How to Speak Jewelry.” Having retired from his career as a computer networking entrepreneur, Paul Göransson and his wife, Helen, manage their 260-acre beef cattle and hay farm in Eliot, Maine. They recently acquired a neighboring farm with a 1740 farmhouse and a Civil War-era barn, which they will restore and return to productive use. In November, they welcomed their second granddaughter, Emily Jane, who joins 3-year-old Eleanor. Five years ago, Paul thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail on his then-new total ankle replacement (the inspiration for his trail name, TARman) and in 2018 embarked on a three-year effort to hike the entire 2,650- mile Pacific Crest Trail. Joan and Irwin Goverman have a home on Mercer Island, near Seattle, and another on Marrowstone Island, off Washington’s peninsula. Irwin, who retired from Deloitte Consulting after 35 years, is a wine and spirits distributor, and serves on several not-for-profit boards and board committees, including at Woodland Park Zoo and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Joan is professor and chair at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology. The couple often travels to Boston to visit their granddaughter and her parents, and expected to welcome a second grandchild in February. Rosanna Hertz is chair of Wellesley College’s women’s and gender studies department. Her new book, co-authored with Margaret Nelson, is “Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings and the Creation of New Kin” (Oxford University Press, 2019). In residence at Switzerland’s Brocher Foundation this summer, she will work on a new project on maternal aging, focusing on IVF and donor use. “I am always looking for people to interview, so please contact me if you want to know more,” she writes. Peretz Rodman, MA’83, and Miriam Laufer ’79 welcomed the birth of their third granddaughter, Shaked Rae, in Jerusalem in November. Richard Sherwin celebrated the publication of the volume “A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), which he edited. He writes, “I recently caught up with my old roommate Howard Goldman and his partner, Shelley Payne ’76, in New York and can report that their spirit is as bright and playful as ever.” Ben Visnick, who retired from full-time teaching in 2014, is a union leader working with the National Education Association’s Substitute Teachers Caucus. He writes, “We need good substitutes in our schools — 10 percent of all classes are taught by these under-appreciated people. If you are retired, consider becoming a substitute teacher.” Rabbi Simkha Weintraub received awards this spring from T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Center for Pastoral Education. He credits Brandeis with nurturing his commitment to social justice and service.