Adena Cohen-Bearak P'78, of Needham, a 1983 graduate of Oberlin College, earned a Master of Education degree at Penn State University in 1985 and a Master of Public Health at Boston University in 1999. She has since established a career in the health education field and now serves as the project coordinator for the School Health Index Research Project at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her essay, "Crying," was published in the
Boston Parents Paper in May 2003 and received an honorable mention. She and her husband, Arnie, a software engineer, have a four-year-old son, Jordan. Her father,
Stanley Cohen P'53, HC'56, MHL'59 (see note
below), is a recently retired Hebrew school educator, and her brother, William, is director of the Los Angeles Hebrew High School.
Rabbi H. Philip Berkowitz P'55, BJEd'59, MHL'62, of New Jersey, was ordained in 1966 from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In June, he became rabbi emeritus at Temple Beth Or, Washington Twp., N.J. He and his wife, Nancy, plan to retire to Kennebunk, Me. They have two children: Jeff, an attorney, and Judy, in business.
Stanley L. Cohen P'53, HC'56, MHL'59, of Plantation, Fla., retired in June 2002 following a 43-year career as director of education in Conservative temples in the Boston area and in South Florida. In his most recent post he served for 12 years as educational director at the Rabbi Solomon Geld Religious School of Temple Beth Am
in Margate, Fla., which received the Solomon Schechter Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Elementary Religious Education from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. He also recently received the Orloff Central Agency for Jewish Education Principal of the Year Award. Chair of the Educational Council of Synagogue Directors, he continues his 20-year term as Judaica Director of the David Posnack Hebrew Day Schools in Plantation and Davie, Fla. He and his wife, Joan, have two children—
Adena Cohen-Bearak P'78, and William Cohen, director of the Los Angeles Hebrew High School—and three grandsons: Jonah, Ariel and Jordan.
Janis Goodman Davidson P'65, HC'69, of Pittsburgh, Penn., received a plaque in honor of her ten years of devoted teaching as a Hebrew instructor at the religious school Dor L'Dor in Pittsburgh. She and her husband, Dr. Arthur Davidson, a physicist and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, have two children, both students.
Susan Press Fox P'59, of NYC and Del Ray Beach, Fla., former marketing manager at IBM, served as president of the New York Metropolitan Branch of Women's League for Conservative Judaism (2000–2002) and is currently a delegate to the United Nations, representing the Women's League as a non-governmental observer. She is married to Ben Fox.
Dr. Eric L. Friedland P'56, HC'60, of Dayton, Ohio, the Sanders Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, retired after 30 years of teaching at four area academic institutions in Dayton: Antioch College, United Theological Seminary, University of Dayton and Wright State University. In addition to publishing numerous recent articles, including "A Women's Prayer Book for All?" (
Central Conference of American Rabbis Journal, winter 2002), he was also the only non-rabbi on the editorial team of
Machzor Ruach Chadashah, a unique British Liberal Jewish High Holiday prayerbook.
Edward S. Goldstein P'60, HC '65, was elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors for the New England Cable and Telecommunications Association (NECTA), a trade organization representing cable television/broadband service providers throughout New England. Northeast divisional director of government relations for Charter Communications, he is a graduate of Newton public schools and Harvard and is married to Joanne F. Goldstein, an attorney. They have three children: Michael, a production professional with ESPN; Janna, a university student; and Jeffrey, a Newton middle school student.
Dr. William W. Hallo P'48, the William M. Laffan Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Near Eastern Languages at Yale University, recently retired after 40 years on the faculty. A prolific author, he edited Volume 2 of
The Context of Scripture: Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World with K. Lawson Younger, Harry A. Hoffner and Robert K. Ritner (Brill Academic Publishers, 2002). He is married to Nanette Stahl, curator of Judaica at Yale. His first wife, Edith Pinto Hallo, died in 1994; they had two children.
Dr. Michael Halzel P'58, MJEd'74, retired in June after nearly 40 years in the field of Jewish education. He was honored last spring at the Solomon Schechter Day School (SSDS) in Queens, N.Y., for his performance as headmaster there, and he also served as headmaster of the SSDS in Worcester, Mass., and principal of Hillel Academy in Marblehead. He was national president of the Jewish Educators Assembly from 1995 to 1997 and received an honorary doctorate in pedagogy from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1997. He and his wife, Cellie, have a son Avi, who is headmaster at the SSDS in Memphis, Tenn. Both he and Avi attended Camp Yavneh. His late father,
George Halzel, attended Prozdor in the 1930s.
Dr. Marshall Horwitz P'54, graduated from Harvard University in 1958 and Tufts Medical School in 1962. He now serves as chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has authored over 100 research articles and chapters in several books, focusing his research on adenoviruses. In 1996, he spent a four-month sabbatical at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth, Israel. He and his wife, Susan Band Horwitz, PhD, who recently completed her presidency of the American Association for Cancer Research and is the cochair of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, reside
in Larchmont, N.Y. They have two children, twins—Dr. Bruce Horwitz, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Joshua, an attorney who is the executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in Washington, D.C.—and two grandchildren.
Eleanore Smith CJS'87, MA'95, Hebrew valedictorian of her master's class, received the Keter Torah Award from the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education in 1996 and the Hebrew College Louis Hillson Memorial Award in 1999. A book reviewer at Temple Emeth for 15 years, she also taught there for 20. In the fall of 2002 she exhibited ten watercolor paintings in the Cantor Simon Kandler Art Gallery at Temple Emeth, and in 2001, published a collection of short macabre stories,
Plastic Flowers and Other Stories (American Literary Press, 2001). Her daughter,
Heidi Smith Hyde CJEd'01, is currently an MJEd student, and her grandson, Andrew, is enrolled in Prozdor and a member of the Klezmer Band. She and her husband, Sumner, a retired physician, reside in Chestnut Hill.
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