Brandeis Magazine

Mindy Fleissig Ginsberg moved to Delray Beach, Florida, where she works as a foundation and donor relations officer at Gift of Life Marrow Registry, an international registry that facilitates marrow and stem cell transplants. Son Brandon is a partner at software company ApparelMagic, and son Steven is a freshman at University of Wisconsin-Madison. After practicing in the cybersecurity field for more than 30 years, Mansur Hasib now teaches cybersecurity as a “holistic, people-powered perpetual innovation engine.” He won the People’s Choice Award in Cybersecurity and the Americas Information Security Leadership Award. It was an exciting year for Karen Hendrixson, P’17. Her daughter Rachel ’17 graduated from Brandeis in May. Two months earlier, Karen and her husband joined the Brandeis Travelers trip to Cuba, during which she reacquainted herself with Janis Borasky-Schiff. They were in the same dorm freshman year but had not seen each other since graduation. It turns out they have lived within a few miles of each other for several decades (Karen in Virginia, Janis in Maryland and now D.C.), and their children attended the same D.C. high school. Susan Dribinsky Laufer works in Novo Nordisk’s regulatory intelligence group, having made a big switch from oncology drug development to diabetes, obesity and hemophilia. Her son Yaniv Elani is celebrating the release of his first feature film, the psychological thriller “Wichita,” which he produced. Sue and husband Simon recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary and thoroughly enjoy grandparenthood, even if mostly by Skype. Lydia Saravis is busy with her education and advocacy work in the bladder cancer community, and is happy to talk to classmates whose lives have been touched by the disease. “Knowledge is power with this lesser-known cancer,” she says. Lydia’s daughter is a first-year at Fordham Law School in New York, and her son attends college in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Benson Zoghlin writes, “In the space of 12 months, Mindy and I saw both of our children married, the passing of one mom, and the move of the other mom to assisted living. Mindy started a new law firm, the Zoghlin Group, specializing in environmental, zoning and land-use law. Daughter Rachel, who works in immigration law, was recently honored for her pro bono work. My practice partner and I marked our 30th year in family medicine. Come visit us in upstate New York wine country.”