At the Costume Designer’s Guild Awards, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” costume designer Donna Zakowska won the prize for excellence in the Period Television category. Midge Maisel has been the best-dressed denizen of the Upper West Side since the show debuted in 2017.

Costumes have been central to “Mrs. Maisel” success, helping the show distinguish itself from the crowd of historical dramas and emerge as one of the major period pieces of the decade. “These costumes change the way I move, breathe, walk and talk,” Rachel Brosnahan told NPR. Brosnahan portrays the show’s main character.

Zakowska can spend up to 16 hours a day on the set when the show is filming. She personally designs the costumes for all the main characters, while also supervising rental costumes for up to 1,000 extras per episode.

[Photo Rachel Brosnahan as Mrs. Maisel, courtesy Townandcountrymag.com]

Leaning in to marriage, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of the motivational bestseller Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, has announced her engagement to strategic consultant Tom Bernthal. “You are my everything,” she wrote on Instagram. “I could not love you more.”

Sandberg was previously married to Dave Goldberg, founder and CEO of SurveyMonkey, who died suddenly in 2015. Her former brother-in-law, Rob Goldberg, introduced her to Bernthal last spring.

Before founding his consulting firm, Kelton Global, Bernthal worked for the Clinton administration and NBC News, where he won an Emmy award for his production work. Reportedly, Bernthal gave Sandberg an engagement band set with five diamonds, representing her two children and his three.

Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, an alt-cool female intellectual, appeared this month on the cover of Elle France. The rabbi, 45, talked to the magazine about living and working in a country where anti-Semitism is on the rise, and the Jewish community can be inhospitable to female leaders.

She has written four books, but it’s her most recent one that has made her a staple in the French literary scene. Reflections on the Question of Anti-Semitism takes its title from an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre. In it, she explores the intersection of racism and anti-Semitism, and grapples with an uptick in French anti-Semitic incidents in the past few years.

Rabbi Horvilleur is at the forefront of liberal Judaism in France, the spiritual leader at the Liberal Judaism Movement of France, an egalitarian Paris synagogue. She worked briefly as a model in order to finance her studies, but she dislikes the outsize attention this episode in her life now receives. She argues that such focus on a woman’s appearance limits her authority.

Maori Jewish director, writer and actor Taika Waititi won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 92nd Academy Awards on Feb. 9 for the comedy-drama Jojo Rabbit.

The director dedicated the award to “all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories.” He shouted out to his Jewish mom: “Thank you for giving me the book that I adapted. This film wouldn’t have existed without you doing that.” Waititi’s mom, Robin Cohen, told her son to read Caging Skies by Christine Leunens — the story that Waititi adapted into his film. Jojo Rabbit tells the story of a Hitler youth member, whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, and who finds out that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic.

Other Jewish moments at the Oscars: Idina Menzel sang the Oscar-nominated “Into the Unknown” from Frozen; Randy Newman performed his Oscar-nominated song from Toy Story 4, “I can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”; and Joker star Joaquin Phoenix won best actor for his performance as Batman’s nemesis.

President Donald Trump has enlisted the celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz to join his defense team in a politically charged case to secure his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial. Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus, who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow and Mike Tyson, is expected to have only a limited role, presenting oral arguments at the Senate trial “to address the Constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the legal team said in a statement.

The National Science Foundation has announced that the first National U.S. observatory to be named after a female astronomer will honor Jewish scientist Vera Rubin. The large synoptic survey telescope in Cerro Pachòn, Chile, will be renamed the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Rubin, who died in 2016 at the age of 88 is best known for discovering evidence of dark matter — particles that do not absorb, reflect or emit light, but have an effect on objects we observe.

          The observatory renaming recognizes her role in better understanding dark matter. The study of dark matter will be one of the facility’s main research topics, along with taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.

“Through her discovery of dark matter, Vera made one of the most important contributions to science in the past century, said Steve Kahn, director of the Rubin Observatory. “Her pioneering work dramatically improves our understanding of the universe.”

Renowned psychosexual therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on May 19 in Beersheva, Israel. The ceremony will take place during the university’s 50th anniversary celebration.

To commemorate the honor, she is establishing the Dr. Ruth Westheimer endowed scholarship for psychology. “This is my very first honorary doctorate in Israel,” she said. “And if you donate money to the scholarship, I’ll tell you a secret: You’re going to have great sex for the rest of your life.”