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Ansche Chesed Salons 2020

Sunday, March 15, 2020 19 Adar 5780

11:15 AM - 1:30 PM

Salons are opportunities for small groups of synagogue members to gather in an intimate setting and learn about the vocations or avocations of other members. Our community is diverse and multi-talented, and these informal gatherings are meant to be an opportunity to learn and to create relationships.

As space is limited, we invite you to list below which Salon (or Salons) you would like to attend, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

At this year’s salons we will be learning from the following Ansche Chesed members:

Liz Denlinger CURATOR OF SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE (Wednesday, March 18): Liz Denlinger received her Ph.D. from NYU in 1996, but didn't want a traditional academic career. She worked for the publication Shelley and his Circle for about ten years, then went to the Morgan Library & Museum where she was the twentieth-century specialist in the Department of Printed Books and Bindings. In 2008 she became the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library. She has curated a number of exhibitions, most recently It's Alive! Frankenstein at 200 at the Morgan in 2018, and is a long-time member of Ansche Chesed.

Josiah Gluck THE SOUND OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Sunday, March 15): A true NYC native, Josiah Gluck is one of live television’s preeminent music engineers. This current 2019-20 season marks his 28th year at "Saturday Night Live," for which he won the 2015 Emmy for "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Special or Variety Series" for music mixing on the SNL 40th Anniversary show. 

Josiah is also a three-time Grammy nominee for engineering, sought after as a producer/engineer for both studio and live recordings.  Josiah has also recorded and mixed several CDs for various USAF Bands in studios ranging from Omaha to Anchorage.

Steven Bellovin and Steven Skiena 
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNET SECURITY 
(Sunday, March 15):

Steven M. Bellovin is the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Center of the university's Data Science Institute, and an affiliate faculty member at Columbia Law School. Bellovin does research on security and privacy and on related public policy issues. In his copious spare professional time, he does some work on the history of cryptography. He joined the faculty in 2005 after many years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research, where he was an AT&T Fellow. Bellovin is the author of Thinking Security and the co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, and holds a number of patents on cryptographic and network protocols. 

Steven Skiena is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation at Stony Brook University. His research interests include data science, bioinformatics, and algorithms. He is the author of six books, including "The Algorithm Design Manual", "The Data Science Design Manual", and "Who's Bigger: Where Historical Figures Really Rank".

Skiena received his his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1988. He is the author of over 150 technical papers. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a former Fulbright scholar, and recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award and the IEEE Computer Science and Engineer Teaching Award.  

Debra Wilensky Weinstein and Randy Weinstein A YEAR OF TRAVEL (Sunday, March 15): Originally from Seattle, Debra came to New York to attend Barnard College, where she received her B.A. After moving to Washington DC to receive her MA degree she returned to NY and began working at JCC Manhattan, where she worked in Marketing for 13 years. She is now Director of Marketing at the American Society of the University of Haifa. Randy moved to New York from Los Angeles to attend SUNY Purchase. Since his graduation he has had a 20 year career in IT Networking, working for Conde Nast, Viacom/MTV Networks, and Horizon Media. He currently works at Peloton Interactive. With shared interests in photography and culture, both Debra and Randy have traveled throughout their lives. Shortly after their wedding Randy and Debra left their jobs and headed to Asia for five months. This experience led to a love of the region and a shared passion for travel that did not lessen once they had children. When their son Eli was 9 and their daughter Abigail was 2 they decided to once again put their New York lives on hold and, this time, go traveling as a family. The four of them and their “eight wandering feet” visited seventeen countries as they went around the world for the year.

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