Brandeis Magazine

Ellen Bassuk is the founder of various organizations that serve marginalized and vulnerable populations. She was an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than 30 years, and has written books and journal articles on the needs of homeless children. Beri Gilfix, MA’66, P’97, whose book on the Adams Street Shul was published in 2017, writes that her next book will be about the Newton, Massachusetts, neighborhood where the synagogue is located, focusing on the different immigrant groups who live there. She says her three adult children, two foster children and grandson are all doing well. Nina Judd reports her youngest daughter is deputy legal affairs secretary for the governor of California. Nina would love to hear from friends (ninajudd@yahoo.com). Mary Glosser Lucier says she has been archiving her body of video art, photographs, works on paper and correspondence while making slow but sure progress on new work. Catch up on five decades of her art at www.marylucier.net. Anne (Cohen) Richards edits and updates an annual political directory for the local League of Women Voters, maintains her involvement in the American Association of University Professors, is involved in organizations that deal with issues affecting the lives of retirees, and does mediations at local magistrate and juvenile courts. She and her husband also co-authored the foreword for “A Curious Mind,” a 2020 biography of humanistic psychologist Sidney Jourard. Leslie Simon has moved to Vi at Bentley Village, a continuing-care retirement community in Naples, Florida. She writes, “It is like being on a 165-acre college campus with more than 800 interesting people — and no papers or exams.” Herbert Teitelbaum and Ruth Abram, Heller MSW’71, both P’92, moved to Denver in 2018 to be near their children and four grandchildren. They spend the summer months at their home in upstate New York. Herbert continues to litigate but on a much-reduced basis. He also gives constitutional-law lectures in the University of Colorado’s history department and at a local public high school. Ruth, who early in her career served as program director at the ACLU, is the co-founder of New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum.