Brandeis Magazine

In September, a student-run newspaper at Southern Illinois University interviewed Halbert Katzen about the attention he gets when he’s playing his shofar. Halbert, who lives in a neighborhood close to SIU, sometimes uses the campus grounds as an outdoor rehearsal space. Jennifer Korff is chief operating officer at Brown Rudnick, based in the financial law firm’s New York City office. Craig Lipset is a member of an advisory board created by ixlayer, a leading platform for health testing, to explore ways of making health testing more accessible and affordable. Craig is vice chair of the MedStar Health Research Institute board of directors and founder of Clinical Innovation Partners. Ligia Madeira is chief of staff in the mayor’s office in the city of Taunton, Massachusetts. Sara (Sadinoff) Meyers has been certified as an elder-law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation. She is a member of law firm Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, in White Plains, New York. William Olson is vice president of life sciences at Columbia, a construction company in North Reading, Massachusetts. Ásta Sveinsdóttir, who publishes under the name Ásta, is a professor of philosophy at Duke University. Craig Wolfson, who co-owns law firm Wolfson and Klein-Wolfson, was named Alignable’s 2023 Local Business Person of the Year for Syosset, New York. Mark Yarm is technology editor at BuzzFeed News. Previously, he was features editor at Input magazine.