Brandeis Magazine

Actor Vered Blonstein plays Lana Moore on ABC’s hit series “The Good Doctor,” which (according to the 14th International TV Audience Awards) is the most-watched drama TV series in the world, with nearly 50 million viewers. In July, Adena Blum became senior rabbi for Congregation Beth Chaim in New Jersey. She has been with Beth Chaim since 2014. Matthew Carroll is co-founder and CEO of Immuta, an automated data-governance company. Founded in 2015, the firm is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. In March, Immuta was included in Fast Company’s list of the world’s 50 most-innovative companies. David Fried and wife Molly (Katancik) ’10 welcomed their second child, Saadia Chaim, on March 1. Gilad “Gil” Harel, PhD’12, a musicologist and music theorist, presents music discussions hosted by the New Canaan (Connecticut) Library, including a live webinar in May that explored the sounds of Renaissance Europe. Martin Kaminski, who completed his residency in internal medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, became an attending physician in hospital medicine at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center this fall. Yonatan Morse, assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, will conduct research on the politics of social welfare in Africa as a member of the 2020 class of Andrew Carnegie fellows. Democrat Samuel Petsonk challenged the incumbent in the election for West Virginia’s attorney general in November.