Brandeis Magazine

Michael Bogdanow and Marjorie Freedberg Bogdanow ’78, both P’16, announce the birth of their fifth grandchild, Eleanor Brooke Arens, the first child of daughter Alyssa Heller Hornstein ’16 and son-in-law Andy. Marc Kornblatt and wife Judith moved to Israel last year, filling their first months there with studying Hebrew; seeing friends and family; getting to know their neighborhood; and traveling to a film festival in Wales, where Marc won an award for a short documentary he filmed in Tel Aviv. Now, during the pandemic, Marc is writing children’s books, writing a blog for The Times of Israel and producing a coronavirus-related web series called “The Narrow Bridge Project.” In March, Liane Kupferberg Carter was honored by the group Yes She Can for her advocacy in behalf of adults with autism. Liane and her husband, Marc, are working to expand Spectrum Designs, a screen-printing business that employs individuals on the autism spectrum, which plans to open in Pleasantville, New York, this year. Roberta Lipson, the CEO of United Family Healthcare, has been elected to the U.S.-China Business Council’s board of directors. In May, theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow, MA’76, delivered a live-on-Zoom Kritikos Lecture, through the Oregon Humanities Center. His topic was “Elastic: Flexible Thinking for Our Time of Change.” Richard Novick practices cardiac surgery and critical-care medicine at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. In addition, as deputy head of critical-care medicine for the five ICUs in the Calgary Zone, he is integrally involved in pandemic planning and the treatment of COVID-19 patients. With her TV-producer job on hold, Beth Pearlman is temporarily working at American Public Media’s Marketplace as interim digital director, assisting its mission of helping Americans learn more about the economic forces that touch their daily lives. Julieanna Richardson, H’16, has launched an initiative called The WomanMakers, thanks to a $1 million gift from Ursula Burns, the former head of Xerox. The project aims to record the stories of African American women, assembling a historical record for future generations. Julieanna founded The HistoryMakers, the largest African American video oral-history collection in the U.S. Donna Tarutz, MA’79, is director of community life at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Simon C. Fireman Community, in Randolph, Massachusetts. Previously, she held the same position at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Jack Satter House, in Revere. She also serves on the Hebrew SeniorLife Task Force on Multigenerationalism. Friends can reach her at donna.tarutz@gmail.com. In March, Elena (Nierman) Widder, P’06, welcomed her first grandchild, Ida Corinne, born to Elena’s son Jeremy Widder ’06 and his wife, Allison.