Brandeis Magazine

Victoria Hilkevitch reports her daughter Iris’ remarriage has given her a new son-in-law and grandson-in-law. She also writes, “As for my new music ‘career,’ the COVID band I began, Eine Kleine Porchmusik, was in demand for the Jewish holidays at my synagogue, and now the neighbors are requesting more porch music this spring.” David Housman, GSAS PhD’71, is a member of the advisory board at Thiogenesis, a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops sulfur-containing therapeutics for pediatric diseases. David, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Scholar for Cancer Research at MIT, studies the biological underpinnings of Huntington’s disease, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Richard Lerman, GSAS MFA’70, is an emeritus professor in interdisciplinary arts and performance at Arizona State University. His sound/video website, sonicjourneys.com, showcases his recent video work in the Arctic, along with other performances and installation pieces. Rabbi Jonathan Porath has written “Here We Are All Jews: 175 Russian-Jewish Journeys,” released by Gefen Publishing in October. Jonathan says he took the first of his journeys in 1965, while he was a Brandeis student. Vineeta Rai is an independent director on the board of three health-care and medical-products companies. She says a recent highlight of her life was the two and a half months she spent with her daughter and granddaughters Ellora and Rosie in the U.S. Bill Schneider, H’08, retired in June 2021 from teaching American politics and government at George Mason University, where he has created a scholarship fund for first-generation college students. He is teaching lifelong-learning courses for adults and continues to write an opinion column for The Hill. Paul Solman has helped found a nonpolitical social-innovation nonprofit called the American Exchange Project, which sends high school seniors to and from dozens of U.S. communities for a week during the summer. He writes, “Contact me or AEP if you can help connect us to a community or a high school, the more far-flung the better. How better to depolarize this country?”