Brandeis Magazine

Bob Chernick, P’06, has served as director of psychological services in a small town near Tel Aviv for the past 20 years. He is grandfather to Eitan and Ella, whose parents are Bob’s daughter Karen ’06, an art historian, and her husband, Jonah Mink ’06, a family doctor. Jum-Phot Chuasai, who retired from his position as managing director at Leadership Management International in 2016, is a member of Techno Medical Public Co.’s board of directors. He maintains homes in Bangkok and Geneva. Arnold Goldberg, P’04, is associate director of Brown University medical school’s Brown Family Medicine Residency Program at Kent Hospital/Warwick, based out of Thundermist Health Center. He and his wife have five children and five grandchildren. Douglas Katz and Kim Storey, both P’12, announce the birth of their first grandchild, Ellis Warner Way, to daughter Rachel Katz and son-in-law Stephen Way on Feb. 19. Doug is a neurologist and a professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. Marc Kornblatt has created three web series that are streamable on YouTube: “The Narrow Bridge Project” and “Tel Aviv Walks,” on the pandemic, and “Blue and Red: Respectful Encounters of the Political Kind,” about the 2020 American presidential election. He reports he has reconnected with Steve Williams and Warren Hyams on Zoom. Marc and his wife, Judith, live in Tel Aviv. Patricia (Weiss) Levy co-authored “Eartha and Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White” with Kitt Shapiro, the only child of legendary entertainer Eartha Kitt. The book was published by Pegasus Books in May. Leslie Martin is a newspaper editor and independent editor of Jewish books, and recently celebrated a half century of social justice activism. She writes, “I have also survived two divorces (happily married since 2004), three episodes of cancer, and debilitating depression and anxiety. Career success is only part of the equation. It’s how you live your life that matters.” Richard Novick lives in Calgary, Alberta, where he is a cardiac surgeon; deputy department head of critical care medicine for the five ICUs in the Calgary Zone; and a professor at the University of Calgary. During the coronavirus pandemic, he was active in human-resource and materials planning, and completed many weeks of service in the COVID-19 ICU. Debra Roshfeld has retired after 35 years of working in the Jewish community. To honor her, the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County created a leadership award in her name that will provide an educational stipend to an outstanding professional each year.