Brandeis Magazine

Stuart Chanen has his own law firm, Chanen & Olstein, a trial and litigation boutique that handles civil and criminal cases, including representing wrongly convicted individuals in post-conviction proceedings, appeals and civil rights cases. Stuart and his wife of 30 years, Julie Fenton, committed to spending a substantial amount of time in Michigan this year, both to vote and to work on the election there. Son Elliot, 26, lives and works in Chicago; daughter Emma, 23, is based in Los Angeles. Paul Friedman is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Safer Country, which seeks to ensure that people who have been convicted of crimes or found to be a danger to themselves or others are not able to buy or possess guns. Alma Katsu’s latest novel, “The Deep,” is set on the Titanic, and features a series of mysterious hauntings, disappearances and sudden deaths. The book, published in March by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, was named one of BookPage’s Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2020. Amy Weber Rosen has lived in Florida for 23 years; she says she loves being able to be outdoors all year. Her older son is in the travel business. Her daughter is an endocrinologist in Boca Raton. And her younger son is the contemporary Miami-based artist known as Mister E. Amy has four grandchildren. Dvora Weisberg is national director of the Hebrew Union College-JIR Rabbinical School. Her second book, a feminist commentary on Tractate Menahot of the Babylonian Talmud, was published by Mohr Siebeck in March. By day, Bruce Zamost is a certified civil-trial lawyer in New Jersey, representing plaintiffs in cases involving product defect, professional malpractice, sexual assault and other personal injuries. During his leisure hours, he is a pinball and arcade historian, “at least to the extent that such a title is a real thing,” he reports. Bruce will be featured in the upcoming documentary film “Arcade Dreams.”