Maxine Kantor is engaged to attorney Aaron Graff Gingrande. Beth (Katz) Kantrowitz and her husband, Michael, celebrated the birth of their second child, Suri Leah, on Jan. 22. Emma and Matt (Kessler) Reidy welcomed son Leo in April. Ria Roberts completed her residency in general internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in June. She’s now working on her medical fellowship training in gerontology, and medical education and leadership at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A few months ago, Anne Schweitzer wrote to say she was running for alderwoman in St. Louis. Several of her classmates participated in a Zoom fundraiser for her campaign, she reported: “What a joy to stay connected and committed to the values Brandeis imparted.” Michael Silberstein is vice president of corporate partnerships in the Washington Football Team’s front office. In May, he was part of a Zoom career panel, “Working in Sports,” designed to help transitioning service members and active-duty military personnel explore the similarities between working in the military and in sports. Jessica Statland Kriske and husband David welcomed son Adam Harold on April 23.

Nine women and men stand behind plates of food on a table with a blue tablecloth. Two of them hold a blue Brandeis pennant.

BAGELS AND ABIDING BONDS: Old friends gathered for a January mini-reunion they called “A Sherman Breakfast in Jerusalem.” From left: Sam Ackerman ’08; Adena Frazer, co-director of the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Brandeis from 2003-07; Lauren Kirschenbaum ’10; Orli Mintz ’10; Aviv Luban ’08; Ben Mernick ’09; Avi Bieler ’09; Avi Bass ’08; and Sima Nechama Horwitz ’09.

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