Class of 1968 HS Reunion Journal

Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School

Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion Abie J. Hidary President Rabbi Dr. Raymond Harari Head of High School Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Rothman Executive Director

Rabbi Yahel Tsaidi Head of Elementary School Hila Stern Director of Development

MISSION STATEMENT Since 1927, the Yeshivah of Flatbush has stood at the forefront of American Jewish education and has set the standard of excellence emulated by other academic institutions. It has imbued its students with a thirst for knowledge, a commitment to Zionism, a love of the Hebrew language and the dedication to serve the greater Jewish and secular communities. The school’s philosophy is a synthesis of Judaic studies, liberal arts, and extracurricular activities that places great emphasis on the students’ character development. It has evolved into a unique complement of Jewish and American values that focuses on all aspects of education and enables our graduates to meet the challenges of college and life.

Well into our ninth decade, we look forward to continuing the traditions of excellence, innovation and leadership that have made us a world-renowned institution.

YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH  919 EAST 10th Street  Brooklyn, New York 11230 (718) 377-4040  alumni@flatbush.org  www.Flatbush.org

THANK YOU TO THE AMAZING REUNION COMMITTEE: Arthur and Hattie Silverman Dubroff Vivian Kaye Farber Stephen Gelb Adina Mishkoff Kischel (Israel) Meir Migdal (Israel) Ira Sperling

THANK YOU TO OUR REUNION SPONSORS: SILVER Arthur and Hattie Silverman Dubroff Dr. Gaya Aranoff Bernstein Linda Schwartz Storch BRONZE Harold Altman Ira Gewolb David Pollock Gale Laks Blumenthal MAROON Elliot Braha Vivian Kaye Farber Benjamin Lopata Dr. Linda Belfer Weiner

Dear Class of 1968 Alumni, Congratulations on reaching this monumental milestone - the 50th anniversary of your graduation from the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School! It was a great pleasure to welcome you back to your Alma Mater and it was wonderful to see so many of you celebrating together again.

Many thanks to the members of the Reunion Committee who worked tirelessly so the reunion would be a day to remember.

The reunion was a night for nostalgia, a time to see old friends and recall the fun you had together as well as the exceptional education you received. We are proud to count you among our alumni and commend you all for your personal and professional achievements, your community involvement and your devotion to Am Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael. Thank you for continuing the Flatbush tradition and for carrying forward the enduring legacy of our Yeshivah.

Our goal is to reconnect with our graduates and connect our alumni to one another in the same unbreakable way as the lifelong friendships you formed in high school. We encourage you to stay in touch and become involved in our programs, campaigns, and events. Being an active alum is not only personally rewarding, but also provides you an opportunity to make a difference for others in the community. Your support, and that of other alumni, benefits current and future students and sustains the Yeshivah of Flatbush.

It was a joy coordinating your 10th Reunion - Mazal Tov and Mabrook to the Class of 1968!

Sincerely Yours,

Hila Stern Director of Development

LEONARD ELBOGEN, ‫ע"ה‬ EVE FLECHNER, ‫ע"ה‬ ALLAN GOLDBERGER, ‫ע"ה‬ EZRA LABATON, ‫ע"ה‬ MITCHELL MANSOUR, ‫ע"ה‬ JOAN REISS, ‫ע"ה‬ EDWARD SCHARFMAN, ‫ע"ה‬ NEIL SCHNEIER, ‫ע"ה‬ HANNAH SORSCHER, ‫ע"ה‬

Jeanette Walker Adams 51 Chilmar Crescent Thornhill, Ontario L4J 6Y5 Canada

Sheryl Ringel Adler 1312 Hudson Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-2126 201-692-9717 Sbadlerf@juno.com

Michael Agress 404 Southridge Drive Agoura Hills, CA 91301-3843 818-991-2526 agress@sbcglobal.net I have been a psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California since 1988. (Still working 4 days a week). I have 3 great children, Rachel, Daniel and Ariela, and a granddaughter, Meira.

Nina Moinester Allyn ninamoinester@gmail.com

Harold Altman

16 Whitman Street West Orange, NJ 07052-2028 973-731-2822 reeldeeld@aol.com I have been living in West Orange, NJ for nearly 30 years with my wife, Deena. We have 5 children and 5 grandchildren.

I have been practicing clinical psychology for over 40 years in private practice and at various hospitals.

My avid hobbies include travel, biking, hiking, reading, and crossword puzzles.

Chedvah Levi Amit Neve Daniel 10 D.N. Harei Yehuda Israel 02-993-1381

Simona Aronow P.O. Box 154 Nellysford, VA 22958-0154

Charles D. Ashear 23 Shadow Lawn Drive Oakhurst, NJ 07755-1557 732-531-2123

Stephen Ashear 718-376-0477

Karen Singer Avrech 1531 South Cardiff Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90035-3206 310-557-0132 karen.avrech@gmail.com

Benjamin Bashist 1235 Trafalgar Street Teaneck, NJ 076662858 201-907-0083 bbashist@gmail.com After Brooklyn College, I went to Albert Einstein and became a radiologist specializing in body imaging. I was on the staff at Columbia Presbyterian for 3 years then went to St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan in 1983 (now part of Mount Sinai) and have been there ever since.

I married Marion Weinberger (from Washington Heights) in 1975 and have two great kids, Michael who is a YU trained Rabbi who teaches at Frisch High School in Paramus, NJ and our daughter Deena Morris who is a pediatric occupational therapist working at the Yeshiva of North Jersey.

We B"H have a bunch of terrific grandkids.

We have lived in Teaneck, NJ since 1987. The ultimate nachas is that around town, we are known as our childrens' parents.

We were fortunate to be able to make the choice to live near our parents. Our kids were close to them growing up which made a tremendous difference in all of our lives.

Leon Beda 441 Quentin Road Brooklyn, NY 11223 718-376-7737

For about 38 years now, I have been selling shoes on a wholesale level. The name of my company is Skadoo Sport Co Inc and we sell shoes for men women and children. We have our own brands ZigZag, Pitter Patter and Skadoo.

I have four children all married with children of their own.

All my children attended Flatbush Yeshivah.

In the last four years I have written two books "Mafteach Latorah" (the key to the Torah) and most recently "Dellet Latorah" (the door to the Torah).

They are both of the same format containing over eighty chidushim on the Torah in each one.

Yvette Benedek Benedek 2 Gold Street #4611 New York, NY 10038 yvettebenedek@gmail.com

Steven Berger

Sharon Levinson Berkovitz 11 Ashford Road Newton, MA 02468 sblevinson2@gmail.com I received my B.A. from Brooklyn College including a Junior Year Abroad at Hebrew U., and my MSW from Yeshivah University Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Most of my career has been in Jewish communal service, community organization and volunteer management, with two national positions working for Amit Women and the Pardes Institute of Jerusalem. My last job was managing a Non-profit Management Consulting Program for high level corporate executives 55 and older who wanted to give back to the community as volunteers.

I've been married for 37 years to Jay Berkovitz, Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at UMass Amherst, lived in Springfield and then Newton, MA. Since 1989, we've spent every summer and sabbatical times in our apartment in Jerusalem, where we are currently living for the year. Our daughter, Racheli, was married a year ago to Ephraim Schwartz of Bet Shemesh, resides in Jerusalem and is a curator in the Italian Jewish Museum.

I think back with very fond memories of the four wonderful years at Flatbush, of the superb limudei kodesh and secular studies, the love for Eretz Yisrael and Zionism the school transmitted through Israeli teachers and cultural events, the music and theater, and the many friends and fellow students with whom I shared the academic journey.

Sara Berman 300 West 108th Street, Apt. 9A New York, NY 10025-2702 212-666-1422 sb40@columbia.edu

Gaya Aranoff Bernstein 3135 Netherland Avenue Bronx, NY 10463 718-796-7203 gsa1@columbia.edu Whoa! 50 years in a brief personal bio; I guess it’s covered by family and work and faith.

Since graduation I married Lewis Bernstein and we’ve been blessed with children and grandchildren - became a pediatric endocrinologist (still at Columbia Med, been based there for decades) - have remained nourished by my religious/spiritual life. I am so grateful for the tools I acquired at Flatbush....

Marlene Berkowitz Bernstein 882 Ivy Hill Road Woodmere, NY 11598-1835

Etta Zablocki Bick Alon Shevut, Gush Etzion Israel 90940 02-993-1591 ettab@ariel.ac.il

Gail Biscow 706 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3448 718-363-1792 mgbisc@aol.com

Jason I. Bitsky 993 Bronson Road Old Greenwich, CT 06824 jbitsky@stradley.com Things change. I went to MIT, then to grad school at Princeton to study mathematics. But then I switched gears and went off to UChicago Law and have been a business lawyer for nigh on 40 years. 14 years ago I married my dream girl Kyoung ok and we have two boys, 20 and 12, and a girl, 10. They are my constant joy. Over the years, I moved around a lot. We have settled in Westport CT and I practice law at a corporate boutique in NYC. 50 years have passed, but I still have the most vivid memories of my years at YoF and the class of ’68. It was a really good time at a really good place.

Gale Laks Blumenthal 501 Broadway Lawrence, NY 11559-2501 galesgallery1@aol.com Many years have past, Since our high school days, Only four years, But the memory stays.

My focus was the stage, For creative expression, But I wanted something different, For my profession.

I found a place, In ‘Therapy in the Arts’, Where I earned a degree, And touched children’s hearts.

I then met Dean, Who answered my dream, Devoted and strong, We became a great team.

G-d blessed us with children, Our wish came true, Four sons we are proud of, How the time flew.

I wanted to capture, Them growing each day, So I picked up my camera, As they ran and they’d play.

Learned the basics from my father, And my skill took form,

Earned my Photography Masters, And began to transform.

Professional photographer, Is what I became, And as the organization’s president, Much experience came.

And Torah so dear.

I am grateful to Hashem, That our children have grown, Married and now parents, With children of their own.

Portrait photography, Was my passion for years, Working with children, With their smiles and tears.

I appreciate all the blessings, That G-d has bestowed, And the wisdom of Torah, Which guided my road.

For my boys I was active, As President of PTA, And for our shul’s sisterhood, I gave the same way.

Congratulations to us all, We have made it this far, Here’s to the next 50, Each one of us a star!

Through my life evolving, My focus was clear, My love for my family,

Abbe Schwartz Blumenthal 3792 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11229-2410 718-253-0163 abbe1818@gmail.com

Sharon Bossman Bluthal 718-871-7234

Harvey N. Bock 202 Rawson Road, Unit 1 Brookline, MA 02445 617-335-0184 hbock@aya.yale.edu . . . attended Yale College and Law School (with a year spent in Jerusalem, with many Flatbush classmates); worked for 23 years as a lawyer, first at a Boston law firm and then in Chicago as general counsel of Discover Card; and then left the law to pursue a love of teaching Hebrew. I now teach Hebrew (and Aramaic) in Boston at a thriving, pluralistic rabbinical school.

Along the way I have been blessed with a son and daughter and (after a suitable interval) a granddaughter and two grandsons.

Elliot Braha 33 Shadow Lawn Drive Oakhurst, NJ 07755-1557 732-539-7651 elbraha@gmail.com

After graduating from Columbia University with a PhD in English Literature, I went into a family business for thirty-five years.

Since then I enrolled in the Sephardic Rabbinical College and have recently received semicha. Along with my wife, Freda, I raised three children, all married, and am blessed with beautiful grandchildren.

David Bronster 200 East 27th Street New York, NY 10016-9202 212-689-2892

Roberta Lautman Brooks

Leslie Slomovits Capobianco 81 Montgomery Blv'd.

Atlantic Beach, NY 11509 516-414-7906 lesliebythebeach@yahoo.com

Heywood Chalom 1285 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230 718-382-5522

Judah Chasky 171 Sheraden Avenue Staten Island, NY 10314-4331 718-698-5280 jlchasky@msn.com After graduating from the Yeshivah of Flatbush in 1968, I entered Yeshiva University and Erna Michael College. I earned a B.A. from Yeshiva College and a H.S.D. from Erna Michael College. I also enjoyed four years as a “sabreman� on the varsity fencing team. I graduated college with more than just college degrees. I became engaged at the Y.U. senior dinner to Sarah Kitajewitz of Cincinnati, Ohio who attended Stern College. Sarah finished her masters in Special Education while I attended N.Y.U. Dental School. My graduation present was a son, Moshe Chaim, who coincidentally is celebrating his 25th year of graduation from Yeshivah of Flatbush High School this year. I was also blessed with two other daughters who also graduated from Yeshivah of Flatbush. I entered a general dental practice in 1975 in Brooklyn, where I currently practice. Our son, Dr. Moshe Chasky a practicing Hematologist Oncologist resides with his family in Lower Merion, Philadelphia. Our daughter, Devorah Chasky Lubner is an Occupational Therapist who resides with her family in West Hempstead, Long Island. Our daughter Neima Chasky, a Business Executive, resides in Manhattan, New York. We are blessed with six grandchildren ranging from ages 17 to 4. My wife Sarah is employed for the past 34 years at the Board of Education in New York City. I am still practicing dentistry in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Hedy Campeas Cohen 9205 Merrill Avenue Morton Grove, IL 60053-1654 717-657-0842 hcampeas@gmail.com

Ira Cohen 285 Monahan Avenue Staten Island, NY 10314-6130 718-761-5247

Abraham D. Cooper 9327 Oakmore Road Los Angeles, CA 90035 310-558-0103 acooper@wiesenthal.com

Arthur Dubroff Hattie Silverman Dubroff 8 Devore Drive West Orange, NJ 07052-3411 973-731-1038 arthur.dubroff@gmail.com hdubroff@gmail.com We kissed for the first time (shh, don’t tell Rabbi Eliach) at Susan Pearson’s Birthday Party in January 1966. Jump ahead-we wed in June 1971, Rabbi (Zippy) Lieberman was our ‫קידושין מסדר‬. We first lived in Flatbush so Arthur could graduate Brooklyn College. Arthur then dragged Hattie to Boston in 1973 where we lived until Arthur graduated Harvard Business School in June 1975. We then moved to West Orange, New Jersey so Arthur could have an easy commute to his job on Wall Street (hmm, noticing a behavioral pattern here?). 43 years later, we still live in West Orange.

Our greatest accomplishment was born in October 1976, our son Jonathan (more on him later).

Throughout our lives, we have always emphasized communal service. Hattie has been President of our Shul Sisterhood, served for many years on the Shul’s Board and President of the Parents Council of our local yeshivah. Hattie’s communal passion has been AMIT where she has served in a variety of leadership roles for over 45 years. She is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of National AMIT. Arthur rose to President of our Shul at the age of 32 and has served on its Board and Chaired a variety of its most important Committees throughout our 43 years in West Orange. Arthur has also served on the Boards of our local yeshiva, the Jewish Community Housing Corporation, the American Jewish Committee of New Jersey and the Essex County mikveh and has been Treasurer of three of those organizations. He is a Member of the Steering Committee of Jewish Job Network which he helped form when the recession began in 2008 to help members of our Jewish community find employment.

From a career standpoint, Hattie has worked at both the Jewish Guild for the Blind and Catholic Guild for the blind instructing newly blinded adults in skills of daily living. Hattie leveraged her MA from Montclair State University as the Administrator of State grants for frail tenants in low income housing at Jewish Community Housing Corporation where she worked for 24 years. After getting his CPA and graduating from Harvard Business School while earning the School's top academic honor (Baker Scholar), Arthur launched his career as a senior financial officer of various public companies, ultimately reaching the position of Chief Financial Officer. He has served on the Board of Directors of seven public companies, often as Chairman of the Audit Committee or Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Compliance Oversight Committee.

Now, back to Jonathan. He married Dena in 1999. They live in Englewood, New Jersey with our WONDERFUL grandchildren, Hannah-15, Benjamin-13 and Julia-11.

Bottom line-we have been married for 47 years. We don’t know where the time has gone but it has been a wonderful adventure.

Kennith Eagle 35 Taine Mountain Road Unionville, CT 06032

Jay Eisenbach 9719 Boerne Haze Boerne, TX 78006-5238

Leonard Elbogen ‫ז״ל‬

Harvey I. Engelhardt 355 Ring Rd Chadds Ford, PA 19317 609-259-0688

Vivian Kaye Farber 415 Beach 146th Street Belle Harbor, NY 11694-1007 vfarber@madelainechocolate.com After completing a master’s program in applied physiology taught health a physical education for a few years.

Went to work for the family Chocolate business full time in 1974.

Married in 1977 to Dr. Jorge Farber.

Today Jorge and I are running the Madelaine Chocolate Company.

We are blessed with 3 wonderful daughters and 3 beautiful grandchildren.

People to this day always ask me how is it that you speak a “pretty good Ivrit” and are well versed in Tanach? Hats off to the Yeshivah of Flatbush.

Jeffrey Feigenblatt 152 Ocean Avenue Woodmere, NY 11598-1443

Arthur Felsenfeld 39 Pinewood Road East Hills, NY 11576-2419 516-621-8947 afelsenfeld@jaspanllp.com Following graduation from the High School, I attended Brooklyn College where I earned a degree in Accounting and, more importantly, met my wife, Terry Sperling. We married while I was attending NYU Law School. Terry and I recently celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary. We've been blessed with two wonderful daughters, Tara and Lauren, and four grandchildren, Alexa (13) and Aidan (11) Zone and Madden (8) and Jamie (5) Altman. After graduation from law school in 1975, I joined the law firm of Shea & Gould and became a partner in that firm in 1984.

In 1994, I became head of the litigation department of the New York office of the Houston-based law firm, Andrews Kurth. In January 2017, after retiring as a partner in that firm, I became of counsel to the Garden City-based law firm, Jaspan Schlesinger, where I continue my business litigation practice to this day, while also serving as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial, securities and employment disputes.

For the past approximately forty years, my wife and I have lived in Roslyn, Long Island.

Harriet Silberstein Finck 17 North Irving Street Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-7677 hafinck@yahoo.com Fifty years is too long, so I’ll pick up from our twenty fifth.

I did become a full time artist, first making collage, and then painting. I work in a studio in East Orange, NJ; my annual Open Studio, a group event, is in conflict with our reunion, which I’m so sorry to miss.

Some of my work is Flatbush related; I joined (and began to coteach) an Artists’ Beit Midrash group, where I discovered that there was untapped energy in making pictures using the texts we learned (and didn’t learn) in school.

It is still an important part of my practice. For example, I’m working on a series using the many references to Ger Vetoshav in the Torah.

I also teach a long continuing collage class to adults - aspiring artists, mostly - at an art center in NJ. Still living in the NJ suburbs with my husband Michael; our two dear adult children are in New York.

My email is: hafinck@yahoo.com My website: harrietfinck.com

Nathaniel Fisch 105 Fitz-Randolph Street Princeton, NJ 08540-5333 609-924-5384 fisch@princeton.edu After graduating, I went to MIT. In 1978, I came to Princeton as a postdoc, and that is where I still am, now as a professor in astrophysical sciences. My main research topics have been in plasma physics, particularly as it relates to controlled nuclear fusion and to plasma devices. I married Tobe (nee Mann, Ramaz ’79, Princeton ‘83) in 1984.

Tobe is a primary care internist in Princeton. We have three boys (ages 30, 28, 25). Mendy is a lawyer in the US Navy, currently stationed in Chicago. Benjamin is a graduate student at Stanford, studying cryptography. Adam is a graduate student at MIT, studying natural language processing.

Fred Fishman 307 Glenayr Road Toronto, Ontario M5P 3C6 Canada 416-489-2345 fwfishman@gmail.com Toronto is a wonderful city. I met my wife Ruthie here—my very special Canadian. We raised 3 boys to men. They have gifted us by marrying 3 exceptional women and raising 7 wonderful energetic grandkids---so far.

A career in finance kept me busy. Ruthie and I are traveling and enjoying each other more than ever. All in all—I am blessed.

Eve R. Flechner ‫ז״ל‬

Mark S. Friedman 50 Bow Street Forest Hills, NY 11375-5263 917-233-7862 msfriedman18@gmail.com

Rosalyn Remer Friedman 130 Chadwick Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-4206 201-836-2644 ramer1492@optonline.net I am a retired librarian who spent many years working in Jewish day schools. Married to Ira Friedman for the past 44 years. We have 3 grown daughters and 5 wonderful grandchildren. We are both currently retired and continue to live in Teaneck where we are members of Congregation Beth Aaron. Recently I have been spending my time studying Tanach and Gemara and traveling.

Bennett Friedman 22 West 21st Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10010 212-243-5400 info@afnewyork.com

Ira Friedman 78 Harris Street Fairfield, CT 06824 barkeaterman@gmail.com • Graphic Designer until I retired in April (WAHOO!) • Married Heather, a private investigator, 25 years ago • Kid #1 - Emily is a National Parks Ranger at Mesa Verde, CO, as well as a member of the Ski Patrol at Sugarloaf, ME • Kid #2 - Aaron is studying classics at UMass, can be heard on WMUA (UMass radio) as DJ Double-A Battery • I'm always ready to ski, listen to real jazz, or check out art

Michael P. Frogel 535 Beach 136th Street Rockaway Park, NY 11694-1327 mikefrogel@gmail.com Michael Frogel, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has previously served as Director of Quality Management, and Residency Training, Chief of General Pediatrics and Sports Medicine and Director of the Emergency Department and UrgiCenter at Cohen Children's Hospital of the NorthWell Health System in New Hyde Park, NY, as well as, Chairman of Pediatrics and Residency Program Director at Nassau University Medical Center.

Dr. Frogel's main areas of interest are pediatric emergency preparedness, child advocacy, sports medicine and weight management, and preventive pediatrics. He is currently working on Stem Cell research in Israel and the US for the treatment of vascular diseases and Diabetes. Since 2008 he has served as Principal Investigator for the NY City Department of Health, US Health and Human Services, Pediatric Disaster Coalition (PDC) Grant encompassing pediatric emergency preparedness for New York.

Dr. Frogel has played a leadership role in numerous discussion based and full scale pediatric mass casualty exercises to ensure that plans are fully operationalized in NYC as well as in Israel. The coalition has actively participated in pediatric preparedness in response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Haitian Earthquake, Oklahoma City Earthquakes and Super-storm Sandy. Dr. Frogel has been Medical Director of the Pediatric Disaster Mental Health Intervention at Maimonides Medical Center in NY since March of 2013. This post Sandy Americares Grant encompasses a training program on the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric disaster mental health disorders, as well as, elements of psychological first aid, working in a disaster zone and prevention of Compassion Fatigue. Dr. Frogel has participated as a subject matter expert on different local and national committees and panels including the National Advisory Committee on Children in Disasters, Institute of Medicine; Pediatric Preparedness, GNYHA hospital bomb blast task force, NY State Ventilator Allocation Task Force, Pediatric Hospital Preparedness Task Force etc. Most recently he was named Chairman of the National Pediatric Disaster Coalition. He frequently lectures on pediatric emergency preparedness in the United States and abroad.

Since 2004 Dr. Frogel has coordinated a yearly comprehensive course in Israel for US and Canadian Physicians on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Mental Health. He has frequently visited Israeli cities under attack and has spearheaded campaigns to build shelters at schools and playgrounds. At his urging and with his leadership the Ministry of Health and Home Front Command has conducted major full-scale pediatric specific hospital drills in Israel.

Judith Soniker Galitzer

J. Martin Gewirtz 84 Remson Avenue Monsey, NY 10952-2425 dawnm@pipkidsny.com

Stephen Gelb 411 Churchill Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-3010 201-837-2834 Spadeuce@optonline.net

When we last tuned in (1993), Steve was at a low point in his life: his father was hospitalized (and passed, a week after the reunion), and his mother, with dementia, required a caregiver. He was a labor law attorney but seeking to change jobs.

Flash forward two years to 1995. Steve met and married Miriam Holmes, who can play Jewish geography with the best of them.

With Miriam’s assistance, Steve provided a home for his mother until she passed in 2001. Miriam and Steve have three daughters.

Shira, the oldest, made aliya in April while on her gap year. The two younger daughters [Rachel (16) and Margaret (14)] attend Frisch High School, where staff includes Karen Lopata, Rabbi Michael Bashist, and Sara Labaton, children of classmates.

Noted in our Yearbook as being a theatre critic, Steve learned (in 2002) that many theatres, albeit not “Broadway,” appreciate volunteers. As a volunteer, he has since seen more than 1,200 different theatrical productions, generally off Broadway. After a performance of Avenue Q, Arthur Felsenfeld recognized Steve, not having seen him in decades. [“I lost my hair and he still recognized me!”] It still makes Stephen smile. Another smile came from winning the cartoon caption competition in The New Yorker. Of course, numerous smiles can be attributed to the three girls. Once, when Steve drove past the Yeshivah’s Coney Island Avenue Campus, he pointed it out to his daughters as his elementary school.

They were dismayed. “We thought you went to school in Paris.” Don’t ask!

Ira H. Gewolb 1120 Portage Path East Lansing, MI 48823 517-203-4802 ira.gewolb@hc.msu.edu Ira is a proud graduate of the Yeshiva of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School. He has maintained close ties with the High School, having funded, since the 1980’s, the Moshe and Helene Gewolb Holocaust Memorial Zachor Scholarship, first in honor of and now in memory of his parents. The scholarship is given yearly at graduation to that student who has done the most, through scholarship or organizing efforts, to promote the eternal remembrance of the Shoah. Ira is also proud of the Gewolb family’s donating a room in the new Yad Vashem International Studies building in 2013.

Dr. Gewolb began his career at Yale University, earning a B.S., Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors in Biology in 1972. He completed his medical studies at Yale in 1976. He then did his Pediatrics Residency at Harvard at Boston Children’s Hospital (1976-79). He then returned to Yale to complete his subspecialty training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (1979-82).

Ira currently serves as tenured Professor and Chief of Neonatology and as Associate Chair for Research in Pediatrics at Michigan State University College of Medicine (2004- ). Previously, he was Professor and Chief of Neonatology at University of Maryland (1989-2004), and prior to that he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Director of Newborn Services at Bronx Municipal Hospital (1982-89).

Ira has served as President of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, and he is a member of the American Pediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Pediatric Research.

He has been on the board of directors for the Maryland and now the Mid-Michigan March of Dimes. He has written ~80 research articles. Ira holds 3 U.S. patents on probiotics and on a new device to noninvasively diagnose gastroesophageal reflux in neonates. He is currently working to bring his device to market.

Dr. Gewolb has received Young Investigator Awards from the New England Perinatal Society (1980 & 1981), the Basil O’ Connor Award from the March of Dimes (1986), and a Research Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Association (1984). Over the years he has been Principal or CoInvestigator on grants from United Cerebral Palsy, the NIH, the American Diabetes Association, and the National Eye Institute, among others. He has been recognized among America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly (2005-17).

A proud son of Holocaust survivors, Ira was inspired to become a neonatologist by a desire to help children at the most critical time in their lives. Among the highlights of his career have been his international collaborations. In Russia, he was given an honorary Professorship at the Kazan Institute of Medical Sciences in Tatarstan, for his teaching and assistance in building a new Neonatal ICU. In Changsha, China he also taught at Xiang-Ya Hospital. In India he worked as a senior investigator on an NIH project using

probiotics to prevent infection in infants. He has been invited to speak at the Royal Society in England, as well as in Israel and the Philippines.

Ira has sung with the Yale Russian Chorus for more than 45 years, has traveled with them to Russia, and has sung at numerous venues in the U.S., including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Boston Symphony Hall.

Isaac Gindi 380 Rector Place #25J New York, NY 10280

Hershel Ginsburg Rimon 27 / P.O.B. 1058 Efrat, 9043500 Israel 972-(0)50-744-6842 ginzy@netvision.net.il I've been living in Israel since August 1995, first in Jerusalem for 3 years and then in Efrat since July 1998. I have 4 kids, 3 of which live in Israel, 2 of which live in Efrat and one on Kibbutz Beit Rimon. One of my kids in living in West Hartford, CT at least for now. Sue and I have been blessed with 11 grandchildren.

Since moving to Israel I have worked as a patent attorney, specializing in biotechnology. I am now beginning to contemplate retirement. Prior to moving to Israel I lived in (reverse order), Chicago, IL; St. Louis Park, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis); Tucson, AZ; and New Brunswick / Highland Park, NJ. I did my undergraduate work at Yeshiva U. (psych), an MSc at Rutgers (microbiology), and PhD at the University of Arizona (molecular biology and genetics).

Herbert Givner 2103 Batchelder Street Brooklyn, NY 11229-5103

Frieda Simkin Givon 1145 52nd Street Brooklyn, NY 11219

Allen Goldberger ‫ז״ל‬

Janice-Adams Adams Goller 323 Chestnut Street West Hempstead, NY 11552-2422 516-485-0187 kvetchy1@msn.com

Isaac Gorbaty 1009 Amherst Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90049-5803 isaacgorbaty@yahoo.com I have reflected, after 50 years, on what the Yeshivah of Flatbush gave me.I received two gifts of supreme value.

First, I achieved a fluency in Hebrew that has allowed me to read, speak, and understand Hebrew. The adults I have met who have received secondary Jewish Day School education at other schools are, sad to say, rarely more than functionally illiterate in Hebrew. Reading Daniel Deronda, Bialik, Agnon, Ahad Haam, and Sholeim Aleichem in Hebrew was way beyond my capability in 10th grade, but Mr. Carmi and our other teachers refused to accept the limitations of their students.

Second, I experienced four years of excellent Jewish and Secular education surrounded by uniformly bright competitive students in an environment primed to achieve success in later studies and undertakings. In my subsequent education, and professional and personal life, I have not met any group of people of the caliber of the Class of 1968. I credit the school and my fellow students for this invaluable experience.

Isaac Gorbaty Los Angeles California

Florence Fortgang Granot 23 Rechov Dan Jerusalem, Israel 972-524-600030 fgranot50@gmail.com I made aliya in 1968 and attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Met my Israeli husband and married in December 1970. We have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. I have a B.A in Sociology and in Social Work and a Masters degree in Social Work Management.

I worked in the Social Services Dept. of the Jerusalem Municipality for 38 years. After taking a number of courses in mediation I served as the Director of the Municipal Mediation Center for 8 years until I retired a year ago at the age of 67. Since then I mediate privately mostly family mediation and volunteer in a number of services, take various courses including Judaic studies and Arabic and am also active in a number of projects.

I remember my days in Flatbush Yeshivah as a most positive experience and occasionally see classmates who live in or visit Israel. I am proud to say that I am a graduate of Yeshivah of Flatbush.

Leslie J. Greenberg 845-246-2704 lesliejoygreenberg@gmail.com

Barbara Fridman Guez Brand 22 Har Nof Jerusalem, Israel 02-651-8612

Fran Chesler Guttman 718-975-4960

Harvey Haber 4525 Greystone Avenue Riverdale, NY 10471-3909 917-273-2110 hth4525@gmail.com Attended Brooklyn College, Temple University Law School and NYU Law School.

Married Susan Wollman (YUHS for Girls '68). We have 2 sons, Steven and Marshall, 2 daughters-in-law and 5 delicious grandchildren.

We live in Riverdale, NY. I practice corporate and commercial law in New York City.

Joseph Harary 1826 East 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11223

Ellis Hedaya 3286 Northside Parkway Apt. 906 Atlanta, GA 30327-1812 404-276-9280 ehedaya@yahoo.com College, medical school, neurology residency. Moved to Atlanta and have been practicing with the same group for 31 years. I have 2 sons.

Hinda Rosenthal Herman 11 Ryan Road Edison, NJ 08817-2941 Barry and I are in the process of making Aliyah to Zichron Yaakov. Our daughter Ariella lives here with her husband David and four wonderful girls.

Dwight Hershman 1740 Ocean Blvd.

Atlantic Beach, NY 11509-1443 516-569-2868 dlhersh@optonline.net

Sheldon Hoffman 596 Saddle Ridge Road Woodmere, NY 11598-1553 516-569-3351 shimshim01@aol.com

Marcy Engelstein Hoffman 4350 Player Street Hollywood, FL 33021-2425 954-961-2987

Ronald Honig 810-478-7263

Robert Hyfler 20 Pebble Beach Drive Livingston, NJ 07039-8207 973-535-8585 bobhyfler@comcast.net

Lenny Ingber 9 Ohr Hachayim Old City Jerusalem, Israel 02-628-0782 taingber@014.net.il

Robert Insel 677 Tanwood Drive West Hempstead, NY 11552-3233 347-408-5578 Rji50@aol.com

Alan Irom alan.irom@gmail.com

50 years in a nutshell.... Happily married to Carol Benson with 3 wonderful children and 8 lovely grandchildren. Moved to Raanana 1990.

Graduated with MBA in operations research and spent many years in software engineering. Currently freelancing technical documentation part time and enjoying the non-work time activities.

Carol Heller Kallet 1120 Park Avenue, Apt. 2C New York, NY 10128-1242 212-289-6828

Anna Kaminer 4487 Binghamton Court Atlanta, GA 30360-2020 Anna.Kaminer@cbre.com

Esther Fried Kaplan 1603 East 18th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230-7201 After graduating from the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School, I received my Bachelor of Science, Major in Accounting degree from Brooklyn College. This was followed by my Master of Business Administration degree from Long Island Universit, where I was chosen to accept the degree for the graduating class because of my 4.0 index. I am also a certified public accountant.

My husband Mitchell and I have three wonderful daughters, of which the two oldest attended our High School. We have nineteen amazing grandchildren. We live in Flatbush and are blessed that the children are all within walking distance. I am active in Emunah of America, having served in many chapter positions including president. On the Brooklyn Regional level, this summer will feature my eighteenth trip filling a bus and taking riders to Atlantic City as a fundraiser for Emunah.

I had chosen our High School because of its pool. I was in twice a week even when my daughters were students. I understand and am saddened that it is gone. I am eager to tour the new building and to see my fellow graduates.

Robert Kaplan 1108 East 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230-4008 718-258-4368 unkap@aol.com I have been blessed with a wonderful wife, three lovely daughters, and four fantastic grandchildren. If you're curious about what I'm up to 50 years later, search Google for "lawkapsules".

Barry Katz 4229 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11229 718-934-2509 Chatulim@aol.com

Eliezer Katz 191 Walnut Street Englewood, NJ 07631-3104 201-692-3682

Susan Pearson Kaye 3 Spector Lane Plainview, NY 11803-4832 516-938-0139 susank4322@gmail.com

Adina Mishkoff Kischel Mitzpe Nevo 110/3 Maale Adumim Jerusalem, Israel 9841141 Israel 972-50-633-7462 Holycook@Netvision.Net.Il After spending my junior year in Israel, I returned to the States to get my BA from Brooklyn College and my MLS from Pratt Institute.

I worked as a business/research librarian for 13 years while living on the Upper West Side.

In March, 1985, my mother a”h and I made Aliya to Jerusalem, where I soon bought an apartment and started my home-based catering business. This was my dream, to start my own business and, thank Gd, I’ve been working at it ever since!

It took many, MANY years, but on Yom Ha’atzma’ut, 2008, I got a call from a friend of mine here who I knew from the UWS; he’d met a man he wanted me to meet. Marc was also a caterer, which is why Herby thought of fixing us up. We hit it off immediately and after returning from a summer in the States, we began seeing each other more frequently and by the end of December we were engaged. We were married on February 27, 2009 and I moved to Maale Adumim where Marc was living. We merged personally and professionally and now operate our catering business together from here. Neither of us had been married before so no kids in the picture, but an extended loving family of many nieces and nephews here in Israel (and a few still abroad), B”H.

Edward I. Klar 2 Dogwood Lane Lawrence, NY 11559-1821 516-239-2141 edwardiklar@gmail.com

Renee Koschitzki Israel

Penina Tarshish Koss 20 Keats Lane Great Neck, NY 11023-1818 peninat@gmail.com

Julian M. Kotch 131-15 Cronston Avenue Belle Harbor, NY 11694-1419 718-945-2831

Jason Koutcher 9 Brewster Terrace New Rochelle, NY 10804-3602 914-235-4927 koutchej@mskcc.org After graduation in June 1968, I attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduated in 1972 and spent the next year as a graduate student at Cornell University.

I became interested in a novel (for that day) concept of using magnetic resonance (MR) (a chemistry analytical method) for medical imaging and joined one of the first 3 groups working in this area at SUNY Brooklyn in an MD-PhD program and co-authored the first MR image of a human. I graduated in June 1979 and went to Boston for further research and medical training at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Massachusetts General Hospital and was promoted to Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. I was subsequently recruited to the Dept of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to develop their magnetic resonance program and have been there since 1985, building a research program supported by NIH and Dept of Defense research grants and am now a Professor of Radiology (Physics) at Weill-Cornell Medical College. I am a Board Certified medical oncologist who takes care of patients with prostate cancer which has become a major focus of mine; I have a joint appointment in the Dept of Medicine.

I am happily married to Sharon Ravetch Koutcher (ES 1968, Central HS 1972, Barnard College 1976, Columbia School of Public Health, 1978) and we live in New Rochelle, NY. We have three children who are married (Baruch/Lawrence, a radiation oncologist who has 5 girls, Sheva/Stephanie a social worker who is home now with 2 boys ages 1, 2, and Sara who is a law student).

Edith Scheinok Krieger 13086 Candela Place San Diego, CA 92130-1800 619-589-1863 iditkrieger@yahoo.com

Alan Jay Kurlander 46 Connonaide Court Manalapan, NJ 07726-4251 732-284-6302 aljay1@aol.com

Ben Kuszer 1236 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230 bjk227@msn.com

Ezra R. Labaton ‫ז״ל‬

Brenda Haber Lavi 250 East 87th Street - Apt. 26C New York, NY 10128-3117 212-828-3705 dlavi99@aol.com

Mark Levenfus 38 Meadow Road Scarsdale, NY 10583-7639 914-723-3747 mlevenfus@markspaneth.com

Sheldon Levine 34 Oakwood Drive Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677-7839 201-505-4811 rinlev@aol.com Live and practice in northern New Jersey. Janette and I have two children, Alison and David.

Lived in Italy for 7 years, and in Detroit for 4 years. Authored 3 non fiction books. Am a 6 time World Champion in powerlifting (WNPF) in the 100 and 110 Kg. Classes.

I miss some of our great teachers such as Rabbi Morris, Rabbi Gruzman, Rabbi Haramati and Rabbi Bronfeld. Mr. Carmel, Dr. Harran, Mr. Zerder, Mr. Rosenthal, Mr. Novick, Dr. Birnbaum and Mr. Spitzberg have all been lifelong influences and for them I am grateful.

Helene Mond Levitsky 99 Westbury Ave. Plainview, NY 11803

Efrem Lifschitz 41/19 Yigael Yadin Street Modiin, Israel 7171604 053-919-0015 efrem.lifschitz@gmail.com I attended Yeshiva University and spent my third year of study at Hebrew U. Not only was it a great experience but led to a change in career plans. Instead of law I opted for Jewish education. I earned the BA and stayed at YU for smicha and an MS in Jewish ed. In my last year of smicha studies I became the acting rabbi for a new shul in my parents New Jersey community which I helped found. I was not interested in being a pulpit rabbi so upon receiving smicha I married and accepted a teaching position. Over the years, aside from teaching the elementary grades I wrote a curriculum as Jewish studies coordinator in one school and became a vice principal in another. I enjoyed teaching far more than administration. For the last half of my career I taught in a community Jewish high school (CHAT in Toronto) and was appointed department head of the Tanach department and later was switched to the Rabbinics department. As department head I wrote teachers guides for some of the courses. The work was fulfilling and I never looked back on my decision not to pursue law.

As a side “job” in the high school I served as union rep for a number of years and then also served as secretary and later president of the Hebrew Teachers (citywide) Union. During this time I also served as a trustee for the union pension plan. The union work was at times satisfying and at others extremely frustrating. It was also a learning experience and an opportunity to serve in a different capacity - one which I would also define as fulfilling.

The best part of life over those 40 years was being married to my wife Aliza of 42 years and raising 4 children. The family has grown and we now have nine grandchildren. We are happily retired (two years ago) and made Aliyah to Modiin, Israel – a very good move.

Naomi Sterman Lifshitz 16a Koreh Hadoro Maale Adumim Jerusalem, Israel 9338724 972-528-308215 naomil5@013.net.il

Diane C. Spanier Linker 65 Brewster Road Scarsdale, NY 10583-2245 914-725-2350 diane.linker@verizon.net

Benjamin B. Lopata 237 Barrett Road Lawrence, NY 11559 516-612-4961 lopataben@gmail.com After graduating from Columbia, I spent two years in graduate school and then went on to law school, where I had the good fortune to overlap for one year with Harvey Bock. I have spent the past 35 years working as a tax lawyer and banker at JPMorgan; my work has been challenging, interesting, and rewarding.

I married Betsy Sicherman of Scranton, PA, in 1980. We have been blessed with three children, Karen, Eric, and Shoshana, each of whom is married and has given us grandchildren.

I feel that I have much to be thankful for.

Mitchell Mansour ‫ז״ל‬

Barbara Hauser Markowitz 435 Elm Avenue River Edge, NJ 07661-1217 201-262-6553 Hi Everyone!

To briefly catch up, I taught English at Paramus High School in New Jersey and retired after 35 years in 2007. After teaching,I tutored students for SAT and ACT prep.

Jerry and I have 2 terrific children, a daughter and son who just got married. Life is filled with taking all types of classes, reading, friendships and travel.

Victor Megerman

Marcus (Meir) Migdal Moshav Matityahu D.N. Modiin, Israel 08-914-4719 meirmigdal@gmail.com

I attended Y Of Flatbush for 12 years from the first grade until graduating from the high school. From there I continued on to YU. The best thing that happened to me there was I met my beautiful wife of 47 years Annette (Graubard). I studied math and economic at YU and accounting at Baruch Grad School.

I worked for the IRS for nine years. Six as a Revenue Agent including a stint in a special unit that conducted special investigations related to drug enforcement, organized crime and political corruption, followed by three years as a Tax Law Specialist in the IRS main office in Washington.

In February of 1981 Annette and I made Aliyah from Silver Spring MD with our three children Eliyahu age 6, Tamar age 4 and Neima a year old. It gives us tremendous joy that all of our children and grandchildren live in Israel.

We together with 19 other families, mostly from the US, founded Moshav Matityahu in the Binyamin Area of Yehuda Vshomron. Matityahu is a fine community whose founding members dedicated their lives to the Mitzvahs of learning Torah and Yishuv Eretz Yisrael.

In 1984 I was inducted into the IDF and after a shortened Tironut, spent approximately six weeks every year for the next 13 years in Miluim serving both during the first and second Intifadas in such places as Ramallah, Shechem, Chevron, Beit Lechem, Beit Sachur, Yericho (they like to throw Molotov cocktails there) and other less known places.

After moving to the Matityahu, I served for five years as the financial and business manager.

For the last 30 years I worked as an accountant in the head office of first Bank Poalei Agudat Yisroel and then First International Bank of Israel serving in various accounting and managerial positions until retiring this year. I am currently working part time in the accounting office of Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak.

I have no doubt that the education I received at Y of Flatbush and continuing at YU was the source of my tremendous love I have for Israel which culminated in our family making this our home.

Howard Neiman 71-42 171st Street Flushing, NY 11365-3340 718-969-6503 howardneim@aol.com Incredible journey in past 50 years, life experience is amazing.

In essence, my parents and God gave me a capacity to love and understand life that helped me nurture a family I cherish, led me to meaningful work as a psychologist with wonderful patients in inpatient and outpatient settings, fostered a love of my community with involvement in school and shul boards and initiating a strategic volunteer security program for shuls in Hillcrest and, feeling a love of Israel and appreciation of politics that led to leadership roles in local AIPAC and NORPAC. Of my 3 children from my first wife, Neomi, who passed away in 2001, two made Aliyah. I remarried my dear Rachel in 2010, her tremendously good hearted family including her 4 super children. Her mom and my mom will be joining us for the holidays. I am healthy, thank God, and anticipate "graduating" from work soon, opening up time to pursue other interests and visit more with my children in Israel.

Les H. Ness 10434 Copper Lake Drive Boynton Beach, FL 33437 718-318-2828 lness001@gmail.com

Alan Nissenbaum 2514 East 65th Street Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-444-1661

Noah Perlman 22A HaTsfira Street, Apt. 1 German Colony Jerusalem, Israel 02-586-8342 Nperlman@netvision.net.il My wife, Dina and I came on aliya in 1976 (young and foolish). My wife is a Physical Therapist. I had a BSc in Math and Economics from Brooklyn College, a MSc in Computer Science from Courant Institute, NYU and a MBA in Finance and Investment from Baruch. In my early years in Israel, I worked at IBM and served in the Air Force. I managed to do 16 years of Reserve Duty without once getting off the ground.

In 1982, I started one of the early successful software startups. To understand what happened here, in 1986 total software exports were 36 million dollars. Thirty years later, software exports were 15 billion dollars (not counting all the software in weapons, medical systems etc.). Along the way we had 5 kids and so far, 20 grandkids (17 of which are boys, so we hope someone is having girls.) We retired very young. I have spent my time divided between extensive travelling, extended family and community service.

My message to young people who do not come on aliya because they believe you cannot make a living here is that when I came my salary in dollars at IBM was 40% of my salary at my job at Met Life that I left, When I retired my weekly salary was 25% higher than my starting yearly salary at IBM. Even for Immigrants Israel can be a country of opportunity.

David Pilzer 13 Hateena Street POB 1353 Efrat, Israel 90435 972-502-04037 davidpilzer@gmail.com Married Rose Pack. We have four children and seven grandchildren.

Studied at Brooklyn College, Yeshivat Eretz Israel (Smicha) and Rutgers University (Master of City and Regional Planning), Worked in New Jersey for state government, a municipality and a consulting firm.

Made aliya in 1984 and live in Efrat.

Was employed by the Planning Administration of the Ministry of the Interior and Treasury for 32 years in various positions. Now consulting in planning, housing and development.

Barbara Cohen Pollak 9 Redcoat Drive East Brunswick, NJ 08816-2758 buba@ebnj.net Life is what happens when…I still can’t believe it’s been over 50 years. Some things have changed, some remain the same. So, here’s the scoop on what I’ve been doing.

I retired from teaching, but still teach. All the time. I never became a published author (see my story from 25 years ago) unless you count the recipes author Nava Atlas included in her vegan cookbooks, but continue to write – stories, poems, divrei Torah, articles, etc. Music is still my “thing” even though arthritis prevents me from playing guitar, and I’ve passed that along to my children as well. All four of my children are married and so far there are four grandchildren. Did you know that grandchildren are your reward for not killing your teens? And for just surviving?

My passions have been communal service related. 4 ½ years as president of my Hadasssah chapter, editor of our monthly newsletter since cut-and-paste meant that literally; organizer of functions (especially food-related, because of my sensitivity to the needs of others) and gift wrapping at the mall around holiday times.

All these give my creative side an outlet. Our synagogue has also been a focus of mine, as a substitute teacher, member of the Board of Directors, Sisterhood, Board of Education, Bikkur Cholim and Ritual Committee. I’m involved in non-Jewish causes as well, volunteering at Elijah’s Promise, our local soup kitchen, and working on food and clothing drives together with a local church.

Although we never made Aliya, we do visit Israel at least once a year and often more. Two of our kids work for Israel-based companies. As you can see from my picture, I’ve joined the IDF – sort of. Since 2002 I’ve worked with Sar-El (‫)שרות לישראל‬, a program that brings volunteers from around the world to work on Israeli army bases. I’ve even gotten some other alumni buddies to do it – Hedy, Bug, Mish and Shelly Svei Shalev. I’d love nothing more that to have more of you join me! I go for my “reserve duty” in just a couple of days.

My plan is to live and be active till 120. Wish me luck!

David Pollock 7118 Poplar Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912-4674 301-270-8890 dpollock@washingtoninstitute.org

I was a professor, then a state Department official, now at a DC think-tank, all doing Mideast stuff.

Married to Judy 40 years, son Max and daughter Jody.

Delighted to be back in touch!

Louann Glickman Reed 33 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 201-568-4832

Richard Reisman 17 Hampton CT Bergenfield, NJ 07621-3904 After graduating from YOF I attended Brooklyn College.

I married and raised 3 children in Teaneck, NJ. After working for Mount Sinai School of Medicine for more than 37 years as a purchasing agent, I retired 2 years ago. My wife Judy and I currently live in Bergenfield, NJ and enjoy spending time together, visiting family, and traveling. I learn once a week with chavrusas, which would make my YOF rebbeim happy, knowing their influence stayed with me through the years.

Carol Reiss

Joan Reiss Kadosh ‫ז״ל‬

Rose Reissman 110 Seaman Avenue, Apt. 5 New York, NY 10034 917-623-7936 cherie.reissman@yahoo.com

Ilene Richman 2166 Broadway, Apt. 19C New York, NY 10024 212-787-7970 richman@gmail.com

Samuel Ritter 584 Forest Avenue Staten Island, NY 10310

Rachel Aimer Roseman 516-374-3928

Jay Rosenbaum 9900 SE 40th Street Mercer Island, WA 98040-3834 508-799-0900

Nancy Resnick Rosenfeld 11 Greentree Drive Scarsdale, NY 10583-7013 914-472-6393

Gail S. Flaum Rosenzweig Beaverton Wholesale Optical 5340 N. 48th Street Tacoma, WA 98407-3822

Elliot Rosner 295 Tehune Road Passaic, NJ 07055

Cathy Hammerman Rozenberg 24 Yosef Albo Street Ramot 3 Jerusalem, Israel 02-586-8911

Jackie Rudolph Yitzchak Sadeh 17/28 Jerusalem, Israel 02-678-5055 yehudit.rudolph@gmail.com

Morris Rudy Fuente De La Juventud #15 Colonia Tecamachaco, Mexico 809-589-8568

Barbara Sandberg 75 East End Avenue Apt. 9J-K New York, NY 10028-7915 212-288-0781 brsandberg@aol.com Greetings! Steve and I are retired, living on the Upper East Side.

We have two amazing daughters and son-in-law Samantha is a lawyer working at Proskauer Rose as a litigation associate, Lauren is a lawyer working at Weill Gotshal as a corporate associate and Daniel is is a urology resident at Mt. Sinai. I regret I won’t be able to join you for our reunion. I would really enjoy hearing from you: br.sandberg@aol.com. Best wishes to all.

Edward L. Scharfman ‫ז״ל‬

Maxine Kaplan Scheiman 151 Summit Lane Bala-Cynwyd, PA 19004-2918 215-664-5120

Shari M. Spilky Schiffmiller 790 Eastlawn Drive Teaneck, NJ 07666 201-833-0793 atyzyc@aol.com Richie (my husband) and I live in Teaneck, NJ. Hashem has bestowed many blessings upon us. We have four amazing, married children and children-in-law: Chana and Tsachi Meyers, Bracha and Howie Mazin, Elisheva and Jeff Fuchs, Moshe and Jaclyn Schiffmiller. They have given us beautiful grandchildren (ranging in age from 16 years to 8 months) who are the joy of our lives and bring us such nachas.

I’ve had a few different occupations since graduating from Hunter College (B.A.) and NYU (M.A.). I worked as a math teacher and then as a systems analyst and developer; but the most rewarding “occupation” by far has been mother and grandmother. I have many fond memories of the years spent at Flatbush and am grateful to all the wonderful teachers from whom I learned so much.

Avraham Schlissel Ofrah D.N.Mizrach Binyomin, Israel 02-996-3286 misterschlissel@gmail.com

Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin 367 Mildred Street Oceanside, NY 11572-3420 liora.p.schmelkin@hofstra.edu I've been married for 48 years to Alan Schmelkin. We have two children (Danielle and Alex), each of whom has three children. Our six grandchildren range in age from 6 to 15 and are the light of our lives.

Professionally, I'm known as Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin and I've been at Hofstra University since 1979, where I am currently the Leo A. Guthart Distinguished Professor of Teaching Excellence and a Professor of Psychology.

Previously, I served as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies. I joined Hofstra University as an assistant professor of educational research after having earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from New York University. As a faculty member, I've primarily taught doctoral level courses in statistics, measurement, and research methodology, and chaired numerous doctoral dissertation committees in educational research and in psychology.

As an educator and scholar I've received multiple awards and recognitions (at the national and local level) for teaching, scholarship, mentoring and service. My coauthored textbook (with my dad, Elazar J. Pedhazur), Measurement, Design and Analysis: An Integrated Approach, is used internationally and other publications have appeared in such journals as Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Cancer, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Psychiatric Education, and Research in Higher Education.

I hope the reunion is a rousing success.

Allen I. Schnall 33 Glenbrook Road Monsey, NY 10952-1309 845-362-1023 arschnall@gmail.com

Neil Schneier ‫ז״ל‬

Ellen M. Newman Shajnfeld 66-10 Booth Street Rego Park, NY 11374-4634 718-897-6628 catsmeow18@aol.com Since graduating from the Yeshiva of Flatbush High School, I attended Brooklyn College and then earned my MA in Hebrew Language and Literature from Columbia University. I have worked as a teacher, a librarian and a computer programmer. I spent two years working at the Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing.

I now work with seniors at the Central Queens Y in Forest Hills. I have three children: Misha, who is a physician’s assistant; Ami, who is a lawyer; and Jennie, who is a social worker. And, I have five beautiful grandchildren.

Shelly Svei Shalev Hachayil 31 Ra'anana, Israel 0-522-9429 sheshalev@gmail.com

Morris Shalom 718-339-2609

Irwin Shamah 1954 East 5th Street Brooklyn, NY 11223-2830 718-376-8015

Francine Packer Sicklick At our 25th Reunion, I was on faculty at Queens College teaching Math Education and supervising student teachers. I was also the President of the Lawrence Village Civic Association having undertaken the unification of zip codes in the village and helping to establish a Neighborhood Watch Program. I went on to become elected as a Lawrence Village Trustee. After several years I took a step back from politics and became much more involved in computerizing my husband's' office and undertaking the swarm of bookkeeping chores that the advent of HMOs required. I have remained a Parks Commissioner in the Village for all of these past 20 years. Personally, I participate as a golf member. My children, and now my grandchildren have joined me in this recreation.

Twenty years ago, Michelle Hershman (Ike's wife) convinced me to join her in a continuing education course in hand quilting. I thought it was a bit insane but anything with Michelle becomes a joy! This took way too long so we moved on quickly to machine quilting. As a member of the Long Island Quilting Society and along with special talented ladies we have designed and created Quilts of Valor for veterans of our armed services. Though most of our other creations are for personal use, we have displayed in several juried quilt shows.

I have enjoyed looking back at old notebooks and recalling the doodles and scribbles and notes that we passed, the Jotto games that we played and attempting to write the entire Megillat Esther on the flap of an envelope. I can credit the Yeshivah for fostering my creativity. As a senior, I challenged myself to read the entire Tanach (remember the beautiful green ones we received as a school gift at eighth grade graduation?), at least once if life provided the time. With G-d's help, I am happy to say that I have completed two cycles of Nach Yomi with both AMIT and an OU program. My love of Tanach and continued learning is definitely an outgrowth of those years in Flatbush with wonderful Chumash and Navi teachers. When I still had Prodigy on the computer, I followed the classes written by Etta's husband, Rabbi Bick and Menachem Leibtag, and many of their colleagues. Today we are blessed with many offerings in the Five Towns. I must give repeated hakarat hatov to Flatbush, Dr Braverman's dream, and my parents’ huge gift to me, for giving me the ability to attend shiurim in Hebrew as well as English.

Erica Dube Silverman 105 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, NY 11215-3709 718-768-3299 edsilverman@gmail.com

Samuel Silverman 1219 Ave. P Brooklyn, NY 11229-1008 718-376-5672

Libby Sinnet libihart@gmail.com

Hannah Sorscher ‫ז״ל‬

Ira Sperling 1 Hudnut Lane Bel Meade, NJ 08502 908-756-0169 isperling3205@comcast.net

I am a newlywed though not for the first time. I am a retired NY city public school teacher with 3 grown children. My wife Beverly is a professor at a university in New Jersey. I enjoy cooking, going to the gym, concerts, and travel.

I have been teaching Kitah Dalet at the East Brunswick Jewish Center, a Conservative Synagogue in New Jersey, for the last 4 years and truly derive a great deal of Nachas from working with the students there.

I joke that I know more about old Rock and Roll than any subject that I have ever taught and have a page on Facebook with 300+ members devoted to all things related to Pop Music past and sometimes present.

Jeffrey Stanger 201-692-1679

Nancy T. Adams Staum 14 Greenwood Avenue West Orange, NJ 07052-2012 973-736-3817 n.staum@gmail.com After graduation I received both my bachelors and masters degrees.

Soon after I married and we moved to West Orange, NJ where I still live.

I have two children and four grandchildren. After working 37 years for the federal government I have retired...but still work. I now substitute teach and work for a program helping to empower kids to stay safe both physically and emotionally in different situations.

Harold Steinberg 628 West 238th Street Bronx, NY 10463 917-509-7947 levite1029@yahoo.com ...have practiced law, found the love of my life, raised three children (Noah, Sara & Ezra), been blessed with five grandchildren, written, visited Israel as often as possible (though never enough), and built character following the Mets, Jets, Knicks & Rangers.

Miriam Stempler 225 Rector Place Apartment 10D New York, NY 10280 212-945-2541 miriam.stempler@gmail.com

Linda Schwartz Storch 6719 Westbrook Road Baltimore, MD 21215-1716 lindastorch3@gmail.com Graduated Brooklyn College in 1972 Masters from Johns Hopkins University 1974 Married Steve Storch Two children, daughter and son Ten wonderful grandchildren Loved my years at Flatbush Yeshiva and miss doing coicle work with Mr. Turetzky!

Lynn Billet Sugarman 525 Sunderland Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-2029 201-836-0786 sugarman.lynn@gmail.com

Ronnie F. Sperber Tokatlilar 300 East 39th Street, Apt. 8E New York, NY 10016-2165 ronnietok@hotmail.com

Joseph Turow 321 Bala Avenue Bala-Cynwyd, PA 19004-2648 jturow@asc.upenn.edu After graduating from the Yeshivah of Flatbush in 1968, I went on to study English and American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate, I discovered the Annenberg School for Communication at the University, where received my Master’s degree and Ph.D. After finishing my doctorate, I went on to teach in the Communication Department at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. I taught at Purdue for ten years, during which time I accumulated vital experiences as a teacher and researcher. I returned to the Annenberg School in 1986, where I was the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for about a decade. I am now a tenured professor and the recipient of the Robert Lewis Shayon endowed chair, I have authored eleven books, edited five, and written over one hundred fifty articles on media industries. In recent years, my work has centered on the intersection of digital media, marketing, and society, with particular emphasis on surveillance, privacy, and social policy. My most recent book, from Yale University Press in 2017, is The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power.

My wife Judy is a pediatrician working for the DuPont Children’s Hospital in a practice in Villanova Pennsylvania. She has been a Philadelphia Magazine top doc for the past eight years in a row. All our children went to Jewish day school (K through 12) in Bala Cynwyd, PA, where we live. My oldest son Jonathan is married with two young children. He is a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services in Seattle. My twin daughters Rebecca and Marissa live in the New York area and were both married about a year ago. Rebecca is a strategic supply chain employee at Unilever, while Marissa works in product analytics at New York Life.

If anyone from our class who knows me is thinking of visiting Penn or Cynwyd and wants to drop by my office or home, it would be a pleasure to see them. You have my email and are welcome to share it.

Looking back on my time as an elementary and high school student at the Yeshivah, I appreciate the high school’s valuesdriven philosophy, the rigorous Hebrew curriculum and creative approaches to teaching Hebrew language and literature taken by the teachers. I was very well-prepared for academic rigors of Penn by the time I arrived there as an undergraduate. Also, Flatbush helped to form my Jewish identity. I am a participant in my Jewish community in BalaCynwyd, where I have found my knowledge of Biblical Hebrew to be most helpful as a go-to translator in my weekly Torah study group.

Stephen Vladimer 11 Pelham Place East Brunswick, NJ 08816-3945 908-254-5043 smvsmv@yahoo.com

Alice Kopyt Wein Arthur Wein 1269 Princeton Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-2822 212-869-9777 201-837-9079 afwein@gmail.com

Arthur Wein and I got married after college graduation in 1972, after which Arthur got his MBA at Northwestern University. We moved back to Brooklyn in 1974 and had two children before moving to Teaneck, New Jersey in 1977 where our other two children were born. I ran a play group for two-year-olds for 38 years and just retired this past June. Arthur is COO of Sanit technologies. He is still swimming and competing internationally in his age group, representing the USA. (He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.)

We still live in the house we moved into in Teaneck 41 years ago, and we feel very blessed to have our 4 married children and 11 grandchildren living close by.

Linda Belfer Weiner 4 Spaulding Lane Riverdale, NY 10471-3212 lindabweiner@gmail.com Since graduation, I married my husband Bernie, had three children and now 6 grandchildren. I am a psychologist and was the school psychologist at the Fieldston Lowe School for 30 years. I continue to work in private practice as a psychologist for children, adolescents and adults.

I live in Riverdale, NY. Alan J. Whitman 2200 N. Central Road, Apt 8K Fort Lee, NJ 07024

Melvin Wiesel 1820 Daytonia Road Miami Beach, FL 33141-1737 305-861-9699

The Yeshivah of Flatbush By the Numbers 2,034 12,465 670

Students enrolled for the 2018/2019 academic year Alumni Alumni living in Israel

1935 2018

First elementary school class graduates 46 students Most recent elementary school class graduates 152 students

1954 2018

First high school class graduates 18 students Most recent high school class graduates 144 students

7 16

Alumni who have served as president of the Yeshivah Alumnae who have served as president of the Ladies Auxiliary

1 2 3

Alumnus appointed a Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court Alumni awarded the Nobel Prize Alumni awarded the Pras Yisrael

90 Years of Excellence in Education

Class of 1968 Directory Adams, Jeanette (Walker)

51 Chilmar Crescent Thornhill Ontario, L4J 6Y5

Agress, Michael

404 Southridge Drive Oak Park, CA 91377

818-991-2526 agress@sbcglobal.net

Altman, Harold

16 Whitman Street West Orange, NJ 07052-2028

973-731-2822 reeldeeld@aol.com

Amit, Chedvah (Levi)

Neve Daniel 10 D.N. Harei Yehuda

02-993-1381

Ashear, Charles D.

23 Shadow Lawn Drive Oakhurst, NJ 07755-1557

732-531-2123

Avrech, Karen (Singer)

1531 South Cardiff Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90035-3206

310-557-0132 karen.avrech@gmail.com

Beda, Leon

441 Quentin Road Brooklyn, NY 11223

718-376-7737 skadoo123@gmail.com

Berger, Steven

No Address Given

Berman, Sara

300 West 108th Street, Apt. 9A New York, NY 10025-2702

Bernstein, Marlene (Berkowitz)

882 Ivy Hill Road Woodmere, NY 11598-1835

212-666-1422 sb40@columbia.edu

Class of 1968 Directory Biscow, Gail

706 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213-3448

718-363-1792 mgbisc@aol.com

Blumenthal, Abbe (Schwartz)

3792 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11229-2410

718-253-0163 abbe1818@gmail.com

Bluthal, Sharon (Bossman)

No Address Given

718-871-7234

Braha, Elliot

33 Shadow Lawn Drive Oakhurst, NJ 07755-1557

732-539-7651 elbraha@gmail.com

Brooks, Roberta (Lautman)

No Address Given

Chalom, Heywood

1285 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230

718-382-5522 hchalom@brooklynbatteryworks.com

Cohen, Hedy (Campeas)

9205 Merrill Avenue Morton Grove, IL 60053-1654

717-657-0842 hcampeas@gmail.com

Cooper, Abraham D.

9327 Oakmore Road Los Angeles, CA 90035

310-558-0103 acooper@wiesenthal.com

Dubroff, Hattie (Silverman)

8 Devore Drive West Orange, NJ 07052-3411

973-731-1038 hdubroff@gmail.com

Eisenbach, Jay

9719 Boerne Haze Boerne, TX 78006-5238

Class of 1968 Directory Elbogen, Leonard

Deceased

Engelhardt, Harvey I.

355 Ring Rd Chadds Ford, PA 19317

Feigenblatt, Jeffrey

152 Ocean Avenue Woodmere, NY 11598-1443

Finck, Harriet (Silberstein)

17 North Irving Street Ridgewood, NJ 07450

201-445-7677 hafinck@yahoo.com

Fishman, Fred

153 Irwin Street Brooklyn, NY 11235

416-489-2345 fwfishman@gmail.com

Friedman, Bennett

22 West 21st Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10010

212-243-5400 info@afnewyork.com

Friedman, Mark S.

50 Bow Street Forest Hills, NY 11375-5263

917-233-7862 msfriedman18@gmail.com

Frogel, Michael P.

535 Beach 136th Street Rockaway Park, NY 11694-1327

mikefrogel@gmail.com

Gelb, Stephen

411 Churchill Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-3010

201-837-2834 Spadeuce@optonline.Net

Gewolb, Ira H.

1120 Portage Path East Lansing, MI 48823

517-203-4802 ira.gewolb@hc.msu.edu

609-259-0688

Class of 1968 Directory Ginsburg, Hershel

Rimon 27 / POB 1058 Efrat, 9043500,

972-(0)2-993-8134 ginzy@netvision.net.il

Givon, Frieda (Simkin)

1145 52nd Street Brooklyn, NY 11219

Goller, Janice-Adams (Adams)

323 Chestnut Street West Hempstead, NY 11552-2422

516-485-0187 kvetchy1@msn.com

Granot, Florence (Fortgang)

23 Rechov Dan Jerusalem

972-524-600030 fgranot50@gmail.com

Leslie J. Greenberg

No Address Given

845-246-2704 lesliejoygreenberg@gmail.com

Guez, Barbara (Fridman)

Brand 22 Har Nof Jerusalem,

02-651-8612

Haber, Harvey

4525 Greystone Avenue Riverdale, NY 10471-3909

917-273-2110 hth4525@gmail.com

Herman, Hinda (Rosenthal)

11 Ryan Road Edison, NJ 08817-2941

Hoffman, Marcy (Engelstein)

4350 Player Street Hollywood, FL 33021-2425

954-961-2987

Honig, Ronald

No Address Given

810-478-7263

Class of 1968 Directory Ingber, Lenny

9 Ohr Hachayim Old CityJerusalem,

Irom, Alan

No Address Given

02-628-0782 taingber@014.net.il

alan.irom@gmail.com Kaminer, Anna

4487 Binghamton Court Atlanta, GA 30360-2020

channabat@gmail.com

Kaplan, Robert

1108 East 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230-4008

718-258-4368 unkap@aol.com

Katz, Eliezer

191 Walnut Street Englewood, NJ 07631-3104

201-692-3682

Kischel, Adina (Mishkoff)

Mitzpe Nevo 110/3, Maale Adumim Jerusalem 9841141

972-50-633-7462 Holycook@Netvision.Net.Il

Koschitzki, Renee

No Address Given

Kotch, Julian M.

131-15 Cronston Avenue Belle Harbor, NY 11694-1419

718-945-2831

Krieger, Edith (Scheinok)

13086 Candela Place San Diego, CA 92130-1800

619-589-1863 iditkrieger@yahoo.com

Kuszer, Ben

1236 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230

bjk227@msn.com

Class of 1968 Directory Lavi, Brenda Haber (Haber)

250 East 87th Street - Apt. 26C New York, NY 10128-3117

212-828-3705 dlavi99@aol.com

Levine, Sheldon

34 Oakwood Drive Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677-7839

201-505-4811 rinlev@aol.com

Lifschitz, Efrem

41/19 Yigael Yadin Street Modiin 7171604

053-919-0015 efrem.lifschitz@gmail.com

Linker, Diane C. (Spanier)

65 Brewster Road Scarsdale, NY 10583-2245

914-725-2350 diane.linker@verizon.net

Mansour, Mitchell

Deceased

Megerman, Victor

No Address Given

Neiman, Howard

71-42 171st Street Flushing, NY 11365-3340

718-969-6503 howardneim@aol.com

Nissenbaum, Alan

2514 East 65th Street Brooklyn, NY 11234

718-444-1661

Pilzer, David

50 South Franklin Turnpike Ramsey, NJ 07446

972-502-04037 davidpilzer@gmail.com

Pollock, David

7118 Poplar Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912-4674

301-270-8890 dpollock@washingtoninstitute.org

Class of 1968 Directory Reisman, Richard

17 Hampton CT Bergenfield, NJ 07621-3904

Reiss, Joan

Deceased

Richman, Ilene

2166 Broadway, Apt. 19C New York, NY 10024

212-787-7970 richman@gmail.com

Roseman, Rachel (Almer)

No Address Given

516-374-3928

Rosenfeld, Nancy (Resnick)

11 Greentree Drive Scarsdale, NY 10583-7013

914-472-6393

Rosner, Elliot

295 Tehune Road Passaic, NJ 07055

Rudolph, Jackie

Yitzchak Sadeh 17/28 Jerusalem

02-678-5055 yehudit.rudolph@gmail.com

Sandberg, Barbara

75 East End Avenue Apt. 9J-K New York, NY 10028-7915

212-288-0781 brsandberg@aol.com

Scheiman, Maxine (Kaplan)

151 Summit Lane Bala-Cynwyd, PA 19004-2918

215-664-5120

Schlissel, Avraham

Ofrah D.N.Mizrach Binyomin,

02-996-3286 misterschlissel@gmail.com

Class of 1968 Directory Schnall, Allen I.

33 Glenbrook Road Monsey, NY 10952-1309

845-362-1023 arschnall@gmail.com

Shajnfeld, Ellen M. (Newman)

66-10 Booth Street Rego Park, NY 11374-4634

718-897-6628 catsmeow18@aol.com

Shalom, Morris

No Address Given

718-339-2609

Silverman, Samuel

1219 Ave. P Brooklyn, NY 11229-1008

718-376-5672

Sorscher, Hannah

Deceased

Stanger, Jeffrey

No Address Given

201-692-1679

Steinberg, Harold

628 West 238th Street Bronx, NY 10463

917-509-7947 levite1029@yahoo.com

Storch, Linda (Schwartz)

6719 Westbrook Road Baltimore, MD 21215-1716

lindastorch3@gmail.com

Tokatlilar, Ronnie F. (Sperber)

300 East 39th Street, Apt. 8E New York, NY 10016-2165

ronnietok@hotmail.com

Class of 1968 Directory Vladimer, Stephen

11 Pelham Place East Brunswick, NJ 08816-3945

908-254-5043 smvsmv@yahoo.com

Wein, Arthur

1269 Princeton Road Teaneck, NJ 07666-2822

201-837-9079

Whitman, Alan J.

2200 N. Central Road, Apt 8K Fort Lee, NJ 07024