Joel Berkowitz, Ph.D., director of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, recently co-founded the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, according to the center’s spring 2013 Golden Peacock newsletter.
This endeavor involves “an international group of scholars collaborating on projects to connect digital humanities methodology to the study of Yiddish theater and drama,” according to the newsletter.
In addition, Berkowitz has been named to the first group of mentors for the translation fellowship program at the National Yiddish Book Center.
Steve Bojan was recently promoted to vice president of Fleet Risk Services for HUB International Ltd. In that position he is responsible for consulting with HUB clients nationally on fleet risk mitigation and compliance with the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to a release.
HUB International is the tenth largest insurance brokerage firm in the United States. Locations of its Midwest offices include Sheboygan and Chicago.
The Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center received two “Zahav” awards from the Jewish Community Centers Association at the JCCs of North America Professional Conference, held March 3-6 in Orlando, Fla.
The agency received a Marketing & Communications Excellence Award in New Media for “Moment of Torah.” This gives community members the opportunity to create video commentaries on weekly Torah portions which are made available online and publicized by social media.
It also won a JCC Excellence Award in Jewish Impact for “The Milwaukee Jewish Artists Lab.” According to a description provided by the Milwaukee JCC, “This artist development program features regular meetings for local Jewish artists to discuss their identity as Jews and as artists.”
P. Rea Katz, Ph.D., PA-C, of Mequon, has been hired as director of faculty development for the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Ill.
She will retain her academic appointment in the physician assistant practice department, where she has taught since 2005, and will continue her clinical practice in the Healthy Families Clinic.
She is a member of Milwaukee Congregation Shir Hadash and president of the board of director of Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee.
William Kravit, president of FHK Senior Insurance Services, announced that his firm was recently recognized by United Healthcare as its 2012 Top Medicare Sales Agency in the U.S.
FHK is Wisconsin’s oldest and largest independent senior insurance agency, according to a release from the firm. It represents many major national insurance companies.
Kravit and his son Jonathan are third and fourth generation members of the family to run the firm, which was founded by William’s grandfather, Frank H. Kravit.
Yair Mazor, Ph.D., professor in the foreign languages and literature department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has written a book on Israeli poet Dalia Yonah Wollach that was published this past autumn.
The book is titled “The Flower and the Fury: The Poetry of Dalia Yonah Wollach and Modern Hebrew Poetry” and was published by MavenMark Books. It includes 45 poems in Mazor’s English translations.
Steven Nadler, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has written a book on the great French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650) that will be published May 8 by Princeton University Press.
It is titled “The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes.” According to a press release, the book particularly focuses on how Descartes spent much of his adult life in the Netherlands.
Nadler has previously written a biography of the great Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza and a book on “Rembrandt’s Jews.”
Daniel Taibleson, formerly of River Hills, recently joined The Feldman Group in Washington, D.C.
According to the organization’s website, The Feldman Group is a “strategic political research specialist” firm founded in 1991 by Diane Feldman. Its clients have included Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore, according to the site.
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