Brandeis Magazine

Steven Kazan is an attorney representing plaintiffs who bring personal-injury lawsuits in cases involving asbestos and mesothelioma. Marian Pruslin donated nearly 100 Russian lacquer boxes to the Museum of Russian Icons, in Clinton, Massachusetts. The items came from a private collection she and her late husband assembled, which was featured in an exhibition at the museum earlier this year. Julian Weitzenfeld left New York to live in Minneapolis for a few months to see his two grandsons and help his son deal with COVID-created child-care challenges. He’s renting an apartment in the Seward neighborhood, a former working-class community with “a strong personality,” he writes, which is now home to immigrants, retirees, students and artists.