Matters of Taste 2016 Invitation

SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2016 RECEPTION: 4:00 PM DINNERS: 6:30 PM ONE NIGHT, EIGHTEEN DINNERS, UNFORGETTABLE CONVERSATIONS...

FOR A GREAT CAUSE ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE JCDS ANNUAL FUND

JCDS

PLEASE JOIN US!

Matters of Taste is a sparkling and fun evening, as intimate and individualized as our school. Savor your choice of one of eighteen simultaneous dinner parties, each hosted in a private home around the Boston area. At each dinner, you will join many other friends of JCDS and meet a special guest — perhaps a noted author, musician, scientist, or chef. Kick off the event with a pre-dinner reception at JCDS, where you can discover the variety and energy of this joyful institution. All are welcome; please invite your friends and family!

Over the seventeen years since its first Matters of Taste, JCDS has been pleased to advise many other organizations on developing similar events. For more information, please contact the Development Office at news@jcdsboston.org or 617-972-1733.

OUR MISSION

JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, is committed to providing a premier education that: • n urtures each student’s capacity for intellectual discovery and decision-making within a respectful, pluralist, bilingual Hebrew-English environment, • g ives our graduates the ability to create their futures informed by Jewish values, texts and culture, and to make a difference in their communities and the world, • k indles the flame of lifelong learning in all its constituencies and serves as an inspirational model of innovative, effective and joyful teaching and learning beyond the school.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

MICHELLE BARMAZEL STEINBERG & KEVIN STEINBERG

Co-Chairs, Matters of Taste 2016

Michelle and Kevin have two children (Rebecca and Benjamin) at JCDS and one (Zachary) in high school. Michelle is an advocate for the highly gifted and co-founded Gifted Research and Outreach. Kevin is the Global Chief Operating Officer of Spencer Stuart Leadership Advisory Services.

Dear Friends ‫חברים יקרים‬, We are delighted to invite you to the seventeenth annual Matters of Taste, the signature fundraising event of JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School, on Sunday evening, March 20, 2016. The event begins with an enticing reception and is followed by an exciting evening full of thought-provoking and engaging conversations with local and national luminaries at small intimate dinners around the Greater Boston community.

As members of the JCDS community and parents of two current students, we are honored to provide leadership for Matters of Taste. We deeply value the school’s ongoing commitment to pluralism of engagement, Hebrew and English throughout the day, a joyful Jewish community, academic excellence, and a whole child approach to learning. JCDS plays a vital role in educating and developing today’s Jewish children for tomorrow’s future. This event ensures that we can continue to do so.

Matters of Taste is a special celebration for members of the JCDS community and our many friends in Greater Boston and beyond. By participating in Matters of Taste, you help maximize support to families attending our school, support our outstanding academic program and sustain an intentionally pluralistic community.

Please be sure to share news about this wonderful event with others to help ensure its success. We hope you will join us on March 20th for a very special evening.

B’vracha and B’tayavon,

Michelle Barmazel Steinberg & Kevin Steinberg Co-Chairs, Matters of Taste 2016 Matters of Taste

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‫ענין של טעם‬

IMAGINATION, TRANSLATION, IMPLEMENTATION ‫ ויישום‬,‫ תרגום‬,‫דמיון‬ ALAN MAYER

Architect

A nice Jewish boy from New York, Alan always knew he wanted to be an architect, but never had a chance to meet one until he was a senior in college. After graduating from Yeshiva University with degrees in English literature and medieval Jewish history, he went on to earn a Master’s degree in architecture. With thirty years of experience working in offices both large and small, he has had the opportunity to work on the widest range of projects: from

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schools and hospitals, to skyscrapers and mixed-use developments, to residences and restaurants. He finds the greatest satisfaction in connecting to his clients and collaborating on the design process — from imagination to implementation.

Liz, a lawyer by training and a member of the JCDS Board of Trustees, and Darren, a neurointerventionalist at Children’s Hospital, are the parents of four children, one of whom is at JCDS. James Cohen, their co-host, is Co-Chair of the JCDS Va’ad Horim (Parent Association), has one child at JCDS, one child at Berklee College of Music and is Director of Development at Keshet.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

WE ALL NEED FRESH AIR ‫כולנו זקוקים לרענון‬ DAVE DAVIES

Contributor, Guest Host, NPR’s Fresh Air and Senior Reporter, WHYY

Ever wonder how NPR’s “Fresh Air” gets produced? How do Terry Gross and her colleagues figure out what to ask, to whom, and when? Find out the inside scoop from veteran reporter Dave Davies, who has covered local politics and government for more than thirty years. He is currently a senior reporter for WHYY, and a contributor and fill-in host for “Fresh Air with Terry Gross.” From 1990 to 2010, he was a reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia

Daily News. Before joining the Daily News, Dave was city hall Bureau Chief for KYW News Radio and city hall correspondent for WHYY. He was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1975. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marna Sternbach.

They have two grown children.

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YONINA AND JEREMY WANDERER KOSHER MEAT NEWTON

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The parents of two JCDS lower school students, Yonina, an American who grew up in Israel, and Jeremy, who is British, moved to Boston after living for ten years in Cape Town, South Africa. Jeremy teaches philosophy at UMass Boston. Yonina is an attorney and contracts manager at a software company.

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GET ON YOUR PJs AND START READING! ‫יאללה פיג׳מה וספור‬ WINNIE SANDLER GRINSPOON

President of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation

Winnie is President of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which created PJ Library, a program that shares Jewish tradition, culture and values with children and their families. In 2005, when PJ Library was first launched, the program gave away books to 200 families; in 2015, PJ Library books will reach 400,000 children and families across multiple continents and languages, including Spanish, Hebrew, Russian and English.

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Come learn about how PJ Library is changing the face of Jewish family engagement, and what is in store, beyond just books. Winnie and her husband, Dr. Steven Grinspoon, are the proud parents of three JCDS alumni.

SUSAN SHEVITZ AND LARRY BAILIS KOSHER MEAT / VEGAN CAMBRIDGE

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Susan has retired from directing Brandeis’s Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership, is writing a book about pluralism in Jewish education, and teaches at Hebrew College and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Active in many social justice organizations, Larry teaches advocacy and community organizing at Brandeis’s Heller School.

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PAGEANTS…AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES...OH MY! ‫ מהר יותר‬,‫ חזק יותר‬,‫גבוה יותר‬

HILARY LEVEY FRIEDMAN

Professor, Brown University

Would you like to learn more about the origins and effects of the Miss America Pageant on our society? How about learning to navigate the competitive pressures of after-school activities for children? Professor Hilary Levey Friedman is an expert on childhood, parenting and after-school activities, with degrees from Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department of American Studies at Brown

University and is an advisor to the National Council on Youth Sports Safety. She is also the Book Review Editor at Brain, Child magazine.

Her book, Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture, helps parents figure out the complexities of after-school programming and its impact on children. She is currently researching a book about beauty pageants in American society.

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JULIA KHODOR AND MARK BELOBORODOV VEGETARIAN WEST ROXBURY

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Julia and Mark are both first-generation Americans, originally from Ukraine. Julia works in science education and is a visiting lecturer at Bridgewater State University.

Mark is a patent attorney, currently managing global IP portfolio for several business units of Royal Philips. They have been JCDS parents since 2007.

‫ענין של טעם‬

HEY RUTABAGA…SAY CHEESE! ‫היי אבטיח תן חיוך‬ MAGGIE RUGGIERO

Food Stylist & Recipe Editor

Much to her parents’ dismay, Maggie Ruggiero eschewed her MSW to open a bar in Manhattan’s East Village, which she eventually sold, and used the proceeds to attend culinary school.

Maggie logged time in some of New York’s most esteemed restaurant kitchens before shifting her focus to food styling and recipe development. Maggie was formerly on staff at Gourmet magazine as a food editor and stylist.

In addition to freelance food styling (including

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SARAH LURIA AND TOM SCHWARZ KOSHER MEAT NEWTON

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advertising and editorial, both print and digital), Maggie is the stylist for Gather Journal and her work appears weekly in The New York Times Magazine. Maggie will regale you with tales from the life of a food stylist and the changing world of print publications.

Science, opera, literature, and bicycles are all part of Tom and Sarah’s fast-paced household. Tom, a neurobiology researcher, is a professor at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital. Sarah, an associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross, wrote about her love of Washington, D.C. in Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. Sarah and Tom are the proud parents of two JCDS alumni.

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BEYOND THE SAFETY NET ‫מקום לדאגה‬ KATHLEEN FLINTON

Associate Clinical Director at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at BMC Kathleen Flinton, LICSW, is the Associate Clinical Director at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at Boston Medical Center. She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MSW from Simmons School of Social Work and an MAR from Yale Divinity School. Her area of clinical focus is in cross-cultural trauma treatment, with a specialization in working with refugees and asylum seekers. In her clinical practice at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and

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Human Rights, she provides mental health treatment to survivors of torture, war and human rights abuses. Kathleen will talk about the very pressing topic of asylum seekers and immigration policy and how we can take care of some of our community’s most vulnerable members outside of the traditionally available social safety net.

Carla and Josh are the parents of two JCDS students, a kindergartener and a first grader. Carla grew up in a secular family in New Mexico and California. Josh attended Solomon Schechter Day School in Newton.

Carla is a social worker and writer, and Josh is an entrepreneur. They belong to Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, a Reconstructionist synagogue in West Newton.

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EXONERATING THE INNOCENTS ‫לזכות את החפים מפשע‬ RONALD S. SULLIVAN

Director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and Founding Fellow of The Jamestown Project Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a Harvardeducated lawyer, is the Director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and Founding Fellow of The Jamestown Project. His areas of interest include criminal law, criminal procedure, legal ethics, and race theory. After law school, he spent a year in Nairobi, Kenya, where he sat on a committee charged with drafting a new national constitution. After returning to the United States, he was employed as a staff attorney for

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ALLISON COOK AND DAVID HIRSH FISH / VEGETARIAN CAMBRIDGE

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the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and represented hundreds of clients in thousands of matters, ranging from juvenile delinquency to first-degree murder. His recent work on wrongful convictions has resulted in the exoneration of fourteen people who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit.

JCDS parents Allison and David are both involved in education. David is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, specializing in medical education transformation and humanism in medicine.

Allison is a Jewish educator, researcher and teacher of both adults and children, as well as a teacher-educator.

She is the Co-Founder of the Pedagogy of Partnership.

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IT’S ONLY A GAME ‫כי זה רק משחק‬ BILL LITTLEFIELD

NPR Host and Writer-in-Residence and English Professor, Curry College Writer and radio personality Bill Littlefield’s work lies at the intersection of sports writing and humor, with a dash of quirkiness for good measure. Littlefield joined NPR over thirty years ago and his signature show, “Only a Game” debuted in 1993. Although he is perhaps best known for his radio show, he is a prolific author and editor on the subject of sports and has served as writer-in-residence and English professor at Curry College for 39 years. His

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thoughtful writing contextualizes on-field events in the wider world, highlighting the humanity of athletes and fans alike. Though his daughters have grown too old for him to continue coaching them, Littlefield occasionally still has nightmares about youth league basketball games in which he was allegedly an official.

Nicole is an attorney and practiced in her home state of California, as well as in Boston, until the birth of their three children, all of whom are students at JCDS. She is a member of the JCDS Board of Trustees, where she serves as Development Chair. She also serves on the board of Camp Yavneh. Joshua holds a business degree from NYU and is a third-generation owner of Joseph Gann Jewelers.

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO TEACH RELIGION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS? ‫לימודי דת במוסדת‬ ?‫ האם אפשרי‬- ‫חינוך ציבורים‬

LINDA K. WERTHEIMER

Author and Journalist

Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, which examines questions around teaching world religions to schoolchildren. The idea for this book grew out of a The Boston Globe Magazine cover story about the controversy surrounding a field trip to a mosque undertaken

by Wellesley middle school students. The book discusses many issues, including whether and at what age it is appropriate for schools to teach

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children about world religions, how to teach about religions with accuracy and sensitivity and the ways in which education can illuminate and soften religious differences. In addition to her work as an author and journalist, Wertheimer teaches part time at Grub Street and Boston University.

Tova, a mother of current and former JCDS students, is the author of three novels as well as many essays and short stories, which have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times and on National Public Radio. Bruce is a high risk obstetrician and is the CEO of Boston MFM, as well as the Vice-Chair of OB-GYN at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.

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‫ענין של טעם‬

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE…ONE WOMAN AT A TIME ‫עתיד בר קיימא לנשים‬ BETSY TEUTSCH

Artist, Author, Eco-Activist

Betsy Teutsch is a prominent Judaica artist, whose passions for alleviating poverty and healing the environment led her to an encore career as a community organizer, writer and ecoactivist. She serves on the advisory board of Fair Trade Judaica and is a founding board member of both Shining Hope for Communities and the Kibera School for Girls. Her recent book, 100 under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women, highlights affordable strategies

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for transforming the lives of women and families in extreme hardship around the world.

A strong advocate for leveraging privilege and technology to help others, Teutsch will discuss the relationship between global warming and poverty, offering insights into how sustainable development technologies can help mitigate both poverty and climate change.

Rachel and William met in high school as ninth graders.

It was love at first sight, at least for one of them. Now married for almost twenty-one years, they have four children, all of whom have been educated at JCDS. Rachel volunteers at JF&CS and William heads the consulting practice of Bridgespan, a nonprofit firm that advises philanthropists and social entrepreneurs on solving society’s most important challenges.

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NOT WITHOUT (CYBER) REASON ‫המערכה לאבטחת מערכות מידע‬ LIOR DIV

CEO and Co-Founder, Cybereason

Once upon a time, the typical online miscreant was a teenager trying to make free phone calls or hack the party line. Now, your most private data — including your credit card and health records — could be vulnerable to attacks from organized crime or hostile intelligence agencies.

If you run a Fortune 500 company and stand to lose millions from a security breach, how can you protect yourself? Traditionally, most large internal security teams rely on a human

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“cyberhunter.” Lior Div, CEO and Co-Founder of Cybereason, will talk about the automated services his company provides to mitigate and handle the risk of cyber-attack. He has worked in the cyber-security field since the early 1990s, and is a former commander of Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent of the US National Security Agency.

Shiri and Ilan are the parents of three children, all of whom attended JCDS. Ilan is Co-Chair of the Israeli American Council and works in private wealth management at Morgan Stanley. Shiri is the Senior Director of Finance and Compliance Officer of OmniGuide, a healthcare company offering innovative solutions for surgery.

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THE ART OF THE EXHIBITION ‫האומנות של התערוכה‬ RONNI BAER

Senior Curator of European painting, Museum of Fine Arts

Most of us can identify a Dutch Master or two: Rembrandt, Vermeer, maybe Frans Hals. But who are the subjects of their paintings? How can we distinguish noblemen from the newly rich, or a maid from a mistress? How does a major exhibition, with artwork on loan from all over the world, come together? Ronni Baer, Senior Curator of European paintings at the MFA, has spearheaded numerous acquisitions and gallery installations in addition to special exhibitions

and looks forward to sharing her experiences.

Her most recent show, “Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer,” was the first to illuminate how rank and status are reflected in seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. She also curated “The Poetry of Everyday Life,” “Rembrandt’s Journey” and “El Greco to Velázquez,” for which she received a knighthood from King Juan Carlos of Spain.

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BELLE HALPERN AND MITCH ROSENBERG KOSHER FISH NEWTON

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Belle, a professional cabaret singer, recently founded Inspiring Educators, a non-profit that helps underserved schools inspire students to succeed. Mitch recently cofounded Kinderlab Robotics, which makes robots that are fun and STEM educational for children ages four to seven; prototype robots were piloted at JCDS.

‫ענין של טעם‬

BEYOND FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: THE FUTURE OF JEWISH MUSICAL THEATER ‫מוסיקה יהודית עכשווית ותיאטרון מוסיקלי‬

MATTI KOVLER

Composer

Jewish musical theatre has a glorious past.

Composer Matti Kovler is determined to ensure its vibrant future, one based not on Old World nostalgia but on musical theater’s potential to bring together people of all ages, Jews and nonJews alike. Kovler’s music has been commissioned

by Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and the Israel Festival and performed by the Israel Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, and the Ariel Quartet. While in residence with the Elie Wiesel Center, Kovler founded “Floating Tower,” a makeshift production company, which intersects

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music, theater and multimedia through a contemporary Jewish lens. He is the winner of two national ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, the Theodor Presser award in Composition and the CJP Chai in the Hub Young Leadership Award. In addition, he recieved one of the Boston Foundation’s $15,000 Brother Thomas fellowships, designed to support artists making outstanding contributions to the Boston community. His unique programming focuses on engaging young Jewish people in contemporary Jewish culture outside the political discourse.

Olga is a neurologist practicing in Wellesley. In addition to medicine, Olga’s interests include dancing, yoga, and travel. Ilya holds a PhD in Computational Mechanics from Moscow School of Engineering. He is the CEO of Deltix, a software company, which he founded ten years ago. Ilya’s interests include sports, dancing with Olga, music and travel. Ilya and Olga have two sons.

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EYEWITNESS: THE LAST JEWS OF YEMEN

‫שארית הפליטה של יהדות תימן‬ PROFESSOR AVIAD*

Historian

*”Professor Aviad” is a pseudonym used for security purposes.

Between 1949 and 1951, nearly 50,000 Yemenite Jews were flown to Israel on the wings of the now famous airlift known as Operation Magic Carpet. The unique religious customs and textual traditions of Yemenite Jewry, often described as the most authentic Jewish community, have made great contributions to Israeli culture, cuisine and music. Of the several thousand Jews left behind in 1951, only seventy are left. On his multiple visits to Yemen, Professor Aviad* has spent time getting to know

the last Jews of Yemen and has maintained contact with them throughout the civil war.

Professor Aviad* is a historian of the modern Middle East, and an expert on Yemeni history.

He has written extensively about the founding of the modern Yemeni state, clandestine Israeli military operations in Yemen, the proliferation of chemical weapons in the Middle East, and Yemen’s current civil war. Join us as we delve into the history and recent fate of this ancient community.

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Active communal supporters, Susan serves on the boards of CJP, Yad Chessed, and Hebrew College. Aron co-chaired the 2015 CJP annual campaign and is CEO of Kronos, Inc., a Chelmsford based software company.

SUSAN AND ARON AIN KOSHER MEAT NEWTON

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CITIZEN “PAGS” ‫האזרח ״פאגס״‬ STEVE PAGLIUCA

Managing Director, Bain Capital and Managing General Partner and Co-Owner, Boston Celtics He is a Managing Director at Bain Capital, a progressive who ran for the U.S. Senate, and Managing General Partner and co-owner of the Boston Celtics. He is a man with “serious healthcare chops,” according to The Wall Street Journal, who “can discuss a company’s aftertax weighted average cost of capital and Red Sox batting averages with equal aplomb.” He is a frequent commentator on global economic issues for television, radio, and print media. His

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charitable activities earned him the Bright Star Award from President Bill Clinton in 2005. In 2010, he received the American Dream Award from Habitat for Humanity for outstanding contributions to the Greater Boston Community.

He coached his four children’s sports teams and is often described as a “regular guy.” Join us for an evening with Steve “Pags” Pagliuca, one of Boston’s most prominent citizens.

For more than a decade, Julie and Alex have hosted a Matters of Taste dinner. Both historians by training, Alex is past President of the JCDS Board and consultant to non-profit organizations. Julie conducts qualitative market research for the retail sector. They love to spend time in Tel Aviv with their four kids.

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PUTTING HER PASSION INTO COMPASSIONATE CARE

‫אל תשליכני לעת זקנה‬ CHARLOTTE YEH

Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, Inc.

Dr. Charlotte Yeh is the Chief Medical Officer for AARP Services, Inc. (ASI), a subsidiary of AARP. In her role, Dr. Yeh works with the independent carriers that make health-related products and services available to AARP members (over 37 million) and identifies programs and initiatives that will lead to better care for older adults. She directs AARP Services’ efforts to meet expanding member expectations in healthcare, and leads new programs focused on transforming health

care in the areas of quality, safety and efficiency.

She studied emergency medicine at UCLA, and practiced medicine for twenty years before leaving the clinical field. Dr. Yeh’s work at ASI reflects her passionate interest in the vitality and resiliency that comes with aging, as well as her belief that health care should be about helping people live successfully every day.

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DORIT HARVERD AND RICHARD DALE KOSHER MEAT NEWTON

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Dorit and Richard, long-standing Matters of Taste hosts, are parents of three wonderful JCDS alumni. Dorit is a teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages with Jewish Vocational Service. Richard is COO of OptumLabs, a healthcare big-data research and innovation center committed to improving patient care and value.

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IT’S YOUR CLOUD TOO ‫העננים שלנו‬ ORRAN KRIEGER

Professor, Boston University

Orran Krieger wants to change the nature of cloud computing. He is the lead on the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a collaboration among the Commonwealth, universities and industry to create a new “open” public cloud. The MOC enables multiple entities to provide (rather than just consume) computing resources and services, and opens up the cloud services industry to innovation and competition. Professor Krieger is founding Director for the Cloud Computing

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Initiative (CCI) at Boston University, Resident Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, and a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at BU. Before coming to BU, he spent five years at VMware working on vCloud. Professor Krieger will talk about how the cloud is transforming many areas of society and the need for an open model of cloud computing.

Marci develops new initiatives and oversees programs for high school students at Brandeis University. She has many years of experience working with educators, youth, and communities in the United States, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. Joram is Vice President of Marketing at Actimize and on the advisory board of three high-tech start-ups. They are parents of three current JCDS students.

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SHOO FLY, PLEASE JUST LET ME SLEEP! ‫תנו לישון בשקט‬ DRAGANA ROGULJA

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dragana Rogulja is interested in understanding sleep. More directly, she wants to understand how the brain reversibly switches between wakefulness and sleep, and how it sustains these states for hours. Her lab uses the fruit fly as a model system to understand human sleep because their sleep is much like our own.

Dragana is an assistant professor in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She obtained her PhD in Developmental Biology from Rutgers

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University in New Jersey, and her postdoctoral training in neurobiology at Rockefeller University in New York. At this fascinating dinner, you will learn about the genes and neurons that control sleep and what happens to our bodies when we don’t get enough sleep. Moreover, what exactly do our sleep patterns have in common with the fruit fly?

Karen is a physician and President of a nonprofit organization, Garden Remedies, which will provide medical marijuana to patients at her Newton dispensary next spring. Ken is an international real estate developer.

Their son is an eighth grader at JCDS. Their house, named Casa Mariposa, has eleven levels and a speakeasy in the basement.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS* ‫תודות‬ Matters of Taste CHAIRS Co-Chairs, Matters of Taste 2016 Michelle Barmazel Steinberg and Kevin Steinberg Host and Special Guest Committee Chair: Shiri Segev Committee: Anne Blumberg, Joram Borenstein, Rachel Chafetz, Sari Korman, Carla Naumburg, Tom Schwarz, Paula Sinclair, and Arnee Winshall

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE Matters of Taste INVITATION

Nicole Lieberman Gann, Seth Gordon, Sari Korman, Naomi Gurt Lind, Carey Schwartz, Joel Segel, and Paula Sinclair *Thank you to all of our volunteers and staff. If we left anyone out inadvertently, you have our sincerest apologies.

IN-KIND DONATIONS TO THE Matters of Taste RECEPTION S. Jason Katz, Brookline Liquor Mart Catering by Andrew

Matters of Taste PAST CHAIRS

Noni and Izhar Armony Sara Riedner Brown and Stephen Brown Daniel Caine Catharyn, Mike, Emma, Jesse, and Sophie Gildesgame Joan and Peter Hoffman Devra and Don Lasden Shira Lion and Michael Rubin Barbara Skydell Safran and Arthur Safran Julie Altman and Alex Sagan Paula and John Sinclair Nancy Smith Arnee Winshall Judy & Al Zabin, Luz Arevalo & Ed Zabin

HEAD OF SCHOOL

Dr. Susie Tanchel

‫ חבר הנאמנים‬BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Yaniv Bejerano Sara Riedner Brown Claudia Davidoff Fiona Epstein, Clerk Nathan Hayman, Treasurer Nicole Lieberman Gann Alex Gurevich

Matters of Taste

Shoshana Jacobs Sari Korman, President Nicole Lamberg Devra Lasden Stephanie Listokin Adele Newman Howie Rodenstein

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Ellen Rubin Alex Sagan Carey Schwartz Tom Schwarz Elizabeth Waksman Arnee R. Winshall, Founding Chair

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS* ‫תודות לתומכינו‬ CHEF de CUISINE

Carla Naumburg and Joshua Herzig-Marx Elizabeth Waksman and Darren Orbach Gilda Slifka

Joanne and Paul Egerman Sari Korman and John Hunt Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum

MASTER CHEF

GOURMAND

Anonymous

Sara Riedner Brown and Stephen Brown Shoshana Jacobs and David Charytan Fran Elovitz The Melvin and Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation Lillian Freedman Fiona Epstein and Jon Pollack Susie and Howie Rodenstein Sarah Luria and Tom Schwarz Ruth Weinrib and Paul Weiss Judy and Albert Zabin

RESTAURATEUR

Anonymous Claudia Davidoff and Joseph Kahan Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Arnee and Walter Winshall

EXECUTIVE CHEF

Anonymous (2) Katya Brezgunova and Igor Gomberg Lizbeth and George Krupp Shiri and Ilan Segev Michelle Barmazel and Kevin Steinberg

CONNOISSEUR

Susan and Aron Ain Anonymous Ifat and Yaniv Bejerano Edward J. Black Margaret and Chaim Charytan

SOMMELIER

Lois and Milton Cail Nicole Lieberman Gann and Joshua Gann

Janet Zerlin Fagan and Mark Fagan Nancy and Peter Finn Nanette and Jose Fridman Rachel and William Foster Nancy Ganz Alexander and Maria Gurevich Claudia J. Jacobs Devra and Donald Lasden Esther and Josh Langer Emily Beck and Jon Levisohn Stephanie and Yair Listokin Lisa and Mark Moellman Alisa Berger and Samuel Moyn Adele and Andrew Newman Suzanne Priebatsch Shulamit and Jehuda Reinharz Paula and John Sinclair Margery Sokoloff and Jeffrey Shoulson Robyn and Bruce Shoulson Nicole Lamberg and Adam Shyevitch Jennifer Kaplan and Dr. Susie Tanchel Tamar and Philip Warburg Luz Arevalo and Ed Zabin

*Commitments as of December 17, 2015.

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