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The UNRWA has been catering to the basic needs of 5.8 million refugees, but its funding has been thinning, especially over the last decade. So, the suggestion has come up that the UNRWA should be connected to a wider network of international institutional network so that funding becomes easier. But the fear of the Palestinian refugees in these Arab countries is that any such move will affect the UNRWA authority, mandated by a UN General Assembly Resolution 302 of 1949, which included the right to return of the refugees, a key clause in the future Palestine-Israel settlement. The Palestinian refugees as well as the Arab countries are strongly opposed to any dilution of the UN mandate.

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the 25-member UNRWA Advisory Commission, addressed the Palestinian refugees on April 23 and laid bare the issues at stake. He told them, One option that is currently being explored is to maximise partnerships within the broader UN system. Such partnerships have the potential to protect essential services and your rights from chronic underfunding.

He assured them: There is no handover or transfer of responsibilities and programmes on the table and no tampering with the UNRWA mandate. And Lazzarini explained the hard realities: The painful reality is that in the last 10 years and despite immense outreach and fundraising efforts, the resources available to UNRWA have stagnated, while the needs of the Palestine refugees and cost of operations keep increasing.

And he also explained the geo-political background of the Palestine refugee problem: The now chronic underfunding of UNRWA is the result of a combination of shifting geopolitical priorities, new regional dynamics, and the emergence of new humanitarian crises compounded by donor fatigue for one of the worlds longest unresolved conflicts. All these have led to a clear de-prioritisation of the Palestinian issue, including most recently among some donors from the Arab region.

But the concerns of the Palestine refugees are not imaginary. Ali Faisal, deputy chairman of the Palestinian National Council and member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said, The Palestinian people adhere to UNRWA as one of the components on which the right of return is based, and we reject everything that contradicts and affects the national rights of our people and the agencys specific mandate.

Both Palestine and Israel are to be blamed for the delay in finding a solution, but in the post-Oslo Accords period from 1994, it is Israel that has been delaying the implementation of the accords as well as the final round of talks, which includes the issue of right of return of the Palestine refugees. Israel is unwilling to accept this right of return, and it is finding every excuse to delay the resolution, blaming it on Hamas for the attacks. And Israel is not also willing to surrender the West Bank, which it has occupied in the 1967 war because of the huge settlements it had allowed there.

The ball is really in Israels court, and international pressure has to be exerted on Tel Aviv to yield ground. Another major issue is that of accepting East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestine state. Hardliners and Zionist zealots claim undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In more ways than one, Israel has to accept the two-state solution, and make the necessary compromises to make it viable.

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It was January 2020, in a small caf in Givatayim, when I last met with the celebrated Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua, who passed away on June 14 at the age of 85. That was January 2020 BC Before COVID so there were no discussions of pandemics, viruses or vaccines (those were the days). The only health issue we talked about was the difficult battle with cancer that Yehoshua was facing. This wasnt the first time I met with Yehoshua, but for obvious reasons related to his health, the tone and discussions in this meeting felt different.

When we sat down for that cup of coffee (or two, or three), he asked me to recount our previous meetings. For me, those meetings were almost a mirror image of the various issues that came to define his life as a brilliant literary figure and outspoken public intellectual.

All of us were active on behalf of Israel, and here we were, face to face, with one of Israels leading writers who was not afraid to explore in his own novels the very issues that were dividing Israeli society.

In the late 1980s, I was an undergraduate student at UCLA. Our Hillel hosted A.B. Yehoshua, and I was among the privileged students who spent an evening conversing with him on a host of Israeli political issues. This was the pre-Oslo years when the first intifada was raging through the West Bank and Gaza. All of us were active on behalf of Israel, and here we were, face to face, with one of Israels leading writers who was not afraid to explore in his own novels the very issues that were dividing Israeli society.

It was from A.B. Yehoshua that I had first heard the idea of a two-state solution. What struck me was how beautiful it all sounded. During our last cup of coffee (which was some 32 years after that first encounter), I told Yehoshua that only a talented author had the ability to take something as politically complicated as a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians and make it sound so ideal and pastoral. I wish you were in charge, I told him.

Many years later, not far from UCLA at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel (where I was the rabbi), I had the privilege of moderating a debate between Yehoshua and UCLA Professor David Myers. This time, the issue was not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Israel-Diaspora divide. Yehoshua had recently made comments implying that only Zionists who live in Israel can experience the fullness of Jewish life today. While many in the audience challenged Yehoshua for what they deemed insulting to diaspora Jewry, I recall making a sincere effort to understand his point of view. When I mentioned that to Yehoshua at our last encounter, it brought a warm smile to his face.

I recounted to him the afternoon before that debate, when I drove him and his beloved wife Rivka around Los Angeles. I gave them a two-hour driving tour of Los Angeles, Malibu and the Hollywood Hills, and while we drove through the supposed glitz and glamour of LA, our conversation was centered on the Holocaust, Zionism and contemporary Jewish identity. Only with a talented and creative writer can you look beyond what meets the eyes and transport your mind elsewhere.

I also reminded Yehoshua that I was surprised and perplexed by how he spent an entire evening in my synagogue a Sephardic-Ladino synagogue but never once mentioned a word that night about his own Sephardic-Ladino background. This was strange to me, for A.B. Yehoshua was the author whose Sephardic-themed novels like Mr. Mani and The Journey to the End of the Millennium gave voice in modern Israeli literature to the classic Sephardic-Ladino heritage.

It was this subject that of Yehoshuas Sephardic-Ladino family heritage that defined the purpose of what became our last meeting. In my current work with the Sephardic Educational Center in the Old City of Jerusalem, we are building a museum and cultural center that will tell the history and stories of the once vibrant Ladino-speaking Sephardic community of the Old City. In doing my research together with Jerusalem-based Edna Assis (our Director of Research on this project), we discovered that the history and stories of that old Jerusalem Ladino community were masterfully chronicled in eleven volumes by another author with the last name Yehoshua Yaakov Yehoshua A.B.s father.

A.B.s Sephardic heritage came from both parents.

A.B.s Sephardic heritage came from both parents. His father Yaakovs family a third generation Yerushalmi family originally hailed from Salonika, Greece. A.B.s mother, Malka Rosilio, was born and raised in Mogador, Morocco, and immigrated to Jerusalem with her parents in 1932.

While Sephardic Judaism was the very fabric of my parents being Yehoshua told me, I do not recall being raised with an exclusivist Sephardic identity. We were raised as Zionist Jews in the emerging new Jewish national project. Its not that my parents tried to forget their roots, but it did not form a core feature of my upbringing.

The two Yehoshua writers father and son had strikingly different styles. Both were storytellers, but while the elder reveled in humorous anecdotes and folktales, the younger explored the complexity of the human condition.

As we sit here today, Yehoshua told me, I face the prospect of walking in the shadow of death. But during my earliest years as a writer, I walked in another shadow that of the great writer and master of complexity S.Y. Agnon.

Indeed, Mr. Mani is not the nostalgic journey through the Sephardic yesteryear of Yaakov Yehoshuas stories. Mr. Mani takes a more nuanced and complex look at Sephardic family identity, perhaps a reflection of the authors own complicated relationship with his Sephardic roots.

In my older years, Ive come to appreciate the value of my fathers work, and how in some roundabout way it influenced my own especially the Sephardic pieces of my writing, Yehoshua told me.

It was then that I told Yehoshua that we are planning a father and son exhibit From The Old City to Mr. Mani that would explore the literary legacies of two great writers Yaakov and A.B. His reaction was, once again, a big beautiful smile, and he offered to share with us any family photos, documents and memorabilia that would help bring this exhibit to life.

We dreamt of the possibility of A.B. attending the opening of that exhibit, but the combination of COVID slowing down our museum plans, and A.B.s failing health, prevented that dream from becoming a reality. In his loving memory, I am now more driven than ever to see that exhibit come to life.

I cherish the many autographed copies in my library of novels by Israeli authors, but the one that is most heartwarming is from A.B. Yehoshua. Its not any of his famous works of literature, but a Hebrew childrens book titled Tamar and Gayas Mouse. Tamar and Gaya are A.B. Yehoshuas grandchildren, and when I spent that day with him in LA and told him I had two little children of my own, he gave me his childrens book and inscribed it (in Hebrew) Dear Shira and Ilan This is from Tamar and Gayas Saba A.B. Yehoshua.

A brilliant novelist, an outspoken public intellectual, and a new voice for Sephardic identity, A.B. Yehoshua was also a beloved family man.

A brilliant novelist, an outspoken public intellectual, and a new voice for Sephardic identity, A.B. Yehoshua was also a beloved family man.

That last cup of coffee was special indeed strong and bold a reflection of Yehoshuas own life and writings.

May he rest in peace.

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the Director of the Sephardic Educational Center and the rabbi of the Westwood Village Synagogue.

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(JTA) The Jewish Agencys nominating committee recommended Doron Almog, a storied retired general and a longtime advocate for people with disabilities, to lead the body that bridges Israel and the Jewish Diaspora.

The nomination Thursday of Almog, 71, now goes to the Jewish Agencys Board of Governors, where it is all but assured of approval. The nomination follows an extended period of consideration since May 2021, when the last chairman of the agency, Isaac Herzog, announced his successful run for the Israeli presidency.

The agency has been led in the interim by an acting chairman, Yaakov Hagoel.

Almog has a long career in the military, assisting in the 1976 raid on Entebbe, Uganda to free a plane held hostage by German and Palestinian terrorists. He helped to lead the secret airlift of Ethiopian Jews in the mid-1980s, and led the Southern Command, which had Gaza as a responsibility, during the Second Intifada.

An Israel Prize laureate, Almog has also led disability advocacy. He founded Adi Negev-Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village, named for his son Eran, who died at 23 from Castlemans disease, a lymph disorder.

The Jewish Agency, established in 1929, handles numerous aspects of the Israel-Diaspora relationship, including fund-raising for Israel, encouraging and absorbing immigrants in partnership with the Israeli government, and running Jewish education and identity-building programs at home and abroad. Its funding is provided by North American Jewish federations, together with the federations counterparts in other countries and other donors.

The nomination committee reportedly considered more than a dozen candidates, including a number of women and Sephardic Jews neither group is represented among the chairmen of the agency going back to 1929. Serious consideration reportedly was given to Idan Roll, the deputy foreign minister who is a leader of Israels LGBTQ community.

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A rare edition of the Tanach I acquired recently was a volume of the Bible with Ladino translation printed in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1739. The spurt of Ladino printing in the early 18th century was not simply a revival or a reprinting of what had been done before. It was an utterly new phenomenon, the creation of works that had no previous examples. It included the Meam Loez, the first siddur, the first complete Bible, the first book on Jewish history, and new books on Jewish law.

These books constituted a complete collection of texts necessary for everyday Jewish life, something that had existed among the Western Sephardim and Ashkenazim for over 200 years. This creative period started in 1729 with the printer Jonah Ashkenazi. It was initiated by the realization that the lay Jewish masses in the Ottoman empire were devoid of any kind of Jewish literature in their everyday language. The few books that they did have were written in the 16th century in a pure Castilian Spanish, which they brought with them to Salonika from Spain, while the current 18th-century Ladino was already mixed with Turkish words.

Jonah Ashkenazi was born in Ukraine and had fled to Constantinople around the turn of the century, as had so many other Jews in the decades after the anti-Semitic outbursts in Chmielnicki in 1648. He began his career as a printer in 1710, and in the course of many years he and his heirs published no less than 188 Hebrew texts in Constantinople. Jonah Ashkenazis productions were the basis for the development of both modern Ladino literature and the Ladino language.

This rebirth of Ladino publishing was initiated by a man who needed money to marry off his five daughters. This man, Benjamin Peretz, came to Constantinople to ask for financial help from Jonah Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi suggested to him that he edit a translation of the mystical alphabet of Rabbi Akiva. The publication was apparently a commercial success.

The translator of the book, Avraham Assa, was a fascinating and mysterious personality of whom hardly any biographical information exists. He should be considered, as Yaari once put it in Kiryat Sefer (Vol 10, 1933, p. 378), as someone who meant more for Ladino literature than any other person before or after him. Despite this great importance, in his works his name usually appears only at the very end of the books, often hidden in an acrostic poem. In the Ladino translation of the Pentateuch that he published in 1739, his name was lacking altogether. Was he still afraid of the public discontent with Ladino translations that had been prevalent among Ottoman Jews since the 16th century? We do not know.

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My biological father is buried in a small private cemetery in Irwin, a few miles outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His year of death, 2004. I never knew the man, and my mother refused to discuss him while she was alive. She was very good at keeping secrets, especially her own. As a child, I imagined him as a superhero from whom I inherited my abilities and interests. I was sure my writing skills were from his DNA, as well as my love of books and meeting people from other countries.

I studied the map of my face for clues to my paternal heritage. When people asked me what it was, I stuttered out a response. Italian, Lithuanian and well I never knew my biological father. I would try to overcompensate with but I was raised by my stepfather almost my whole life so its fine, which was too much information for a casual acquaintance. Eventually, I just stopped including him in the conversation. What are you? Lithuanian and Italian.

When my mother died, I thought any hope I had of finding out his identity died with her. My brother, Sam, however, after tracing our entire family tree, started digging into my background. He hounded me to take a DNA test. I eventually agreed. The results indicated that my father was Ashkenazi Jewish. I had never heard the term Ashkenazi before, even though Id often found myself in Jewish spaces, attending close friends Passover seders, bat mitzvahs and Hanukkah parties as a child. Traditional Ashkenazi foods like kugel, rugelach and bagels had even made it into my familys culturally Catholic celebrations.

When I discovered I was ethnically Jewish, I felt like I had been cheated out of a rich, beautiful heritage. I was very curious about all of it: the culture, the religion, the history, and started learning everything I could. It was a way for me to explore my roots and, in doing so, I connected to something greater and began to heal.

I felt ready to learn my fathers last name, and took a second test through Ancestry.com with the hopes of discovering relatives. Among my DNA matches was a half sister. She was born six months prior to me, in California. I wrote to her immediately.

I spent several months operating under the hypothesis that she was raised by my father, but ultimately learned that she had been adopted by an Ashkenazi Jewish family. While I was waiting and hoping for her response, my brother traced my DNA relatives on my fathers side back to one common male ancestor who had arrived in the United States in the 1850s. This gave me a surname. Because it wasnt common where I was born (Pittsburgh) and was also Polish, it was easy to figure out my fathers identity by searching the Ancestry database. There was only one Jewish man that fit the time frame and locations for mine and my sisters births. He was in the navy, and 23 years old when we were born.

The first photo I found in reference to him was of his tombstone. This left me with a strange sense of loss, but also anger. I would never get a chance to tell him how deeply he hurt me and how I thought he should have been much more responsible. I also resented him for leaving me to wonder about him. He had a Christian funeral. When had he left Judaism, and why? Were his parents practicing Jews? Was he named after a cherished family member? There were so many questions that I knew I would never have answers to.

The discovery that I wasnt halachically Jewish confused me. It was hard to explain to my Catholic family that there was no such thing as half-Jewish. Initially, I chose to engage only in Humanistic Jewish spaces, where the question of who is a Jew is never asked and conversion is never required. But I started to get this overwhelmingly powerful desire to explore conversion. It was unrelenting. I enrolled in an Intro to Judaism class, which is the first step in the conversion process. I decided that if I ultimately chose to convert, it would be a gift to myself, and a commitment to the Jewish people.

After a few classes, I wrote to a Rabbi to ask her to sponsor me. We worked together over the course of a year before my beit din, and the following Sukkot I was bestowed with my Hebrew name, Hadassah. It was one of the most memorable, meaningful events of my life. I was like the myrtle tree, my namesake, whose wounds make it grow stronger.

In celebration of my conversion, my two sisters one that I grew up with and one I discovered late in life gifted me with mezuzahs. They remind me that I am accepted and that home isnt just a place.

Confirming my Jewishness has been one of the two great things about uncovering my fathers identity. The other was meeting my sister, who once asked me, What did this guy give us?

Life, I responded. And while it is true, he also gave us trauma.

I am still processing my negative emotions about my father. Over the High Holidays, I spent a lot of time contemplating forgiveness. How do you grant it when it has not been asked for? What good can come from sitting in judgment of someone you never met? I know that forgiveness is the only way I can move forward and learn to appreciate the man for what he was: A link to a culture and peoplehood that are important to me.

Regardless, on Yom Kippur, I whispered his name during the Yizkor service. And in that utterance, I forgave just a little. It was like slowly venting a pressure cooker. Forgiveness, I think, might have to occur annually, in increments.

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Avrom Sutzkever resentedbeing asked to play his Stradivariusin Hebrew. Nobody consentedto Yiddish, language spoken by nefariousNeanderthal deniers of the tonguethat Abraham, his namesake, usedwhen speaking to a God he hungaround with, although when abusedby Abimelech, Aramaicwas surely what they used to speakwith one another. Not archaic, as Aramaic would become,and Hebrew, too, before revived Yiddish language was the sum,in medieval times derived,from Hebrew, German and vernac-ulars of every country whereJews lived, then fled, and then came back.

Throughout the Ashkenazi airwas heard their mamma loshen speech,until these Yiddish words were turnedby gas into a ghastly screech,before six million speakers burned.A Yiddish poet must not die,wrote Sutzkever-six million did,their words lost, mostly every cryin Yiddishshver zu zayn a yid.

Avroms Stradivarius casewas shut after the Shoah whenthe Hebrew harps allowed no spacefor mamma loshen tongue or pen.But times are changing, I believe,and theres good news for Avroms tongue.Though for his death we all now grieve,his words are likely to be sungforever. After aharei motqedoshim, meaning: after killingapotheosis may be whatbecomes the fate, and so, God willing,on Avroms fiddle we may play,now posthumously recognizingthe instrument where he displayedhis gifts in sounds now sweetly rising,as Hebrew has, from deaths dark shade.

I recalled this poem, which I composed twelve years ago, after hearing Ruth Wisse in a podcast in her series Stories Jews Tell discuss a Yiddish poem by Abraham Sutzkever, What Will Remain? In his poem The Fiddle Rose, the neologistic fiddle-rose symbolizes the poet and the music of poetry struggling to survive death, the Holocaust, and the pain and tragedy of the modern world.

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GUEST COMMENTARY - We shall state our position at the outset: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) does not speak for all Jews, it certainly does not speak for usthe daughters of Holocaust survivors and refugeesand increasingly, it does not speak for anyone who cares about justice and human rights.

Despite some laudable activism historically, the ADL is losing credibility as a civil rights organization and with good reason.

In remarks made to the ADL Virtual National Leadership Summit, ADLs CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, engaged in a range of misconceptions and distortions that are beyond the scope of this short piece to address. Early in his presentation, he equated antizionism with antisemitism, a strategy now used to deflect criticism of Israels gross violations of Palestinian human rights, shielding Israel from any accountability. However, perhaps most disgraceful was the false moral equivalence he drew between antizionismwhich he regards as a form of extremismand white nationalism. He states: Antizionism as an ideology is rooted in rage. It is predicated on one concept: the negation of another people, a concept as alien to the modern discourse as white supremacy.

Hence, in Mr. Greenblatts view, those of usprogressive Jews and others who speak critically of Israeli policy, in defense of Palestinian human rights, and equality between Jews and Palestinians are antizionists and hence, antisemites and extremists, as evil in our intent and impact as white supremacists. If ever an argument existed that undermines the fight against antisemitism, it is this one with its false assertions, false equivalencies, and forced division within the Jewish community, and between Jews and other progressive groups.

Our personal histories and understanding of Judaism demand that we condemn the domination of one people over another, oppose Jewish supremacy in all its forms, especially its 2018 codification into Israeli law, and continue to struggle against the deliberate dispossession of the Palestinian people and the destruction of their society.

According to a 2021 poll by theJewish Electoral Institute, twenty percent of American Jews support legal equality between Jews and Palestinians in one state. Twenty-eight percent think Israel is practicing apartheid.As the recent editorial in theHarvard Crimsonshows, students increasingly understand the struggle for Palestinian liberation as the anti-apartheid struggle of their generation. Rather than engage with students and others in a campaign to end Israels abusive occupation and violation of human rightswhich is also in Israels long-term interestthe ADL would rather cast accusations of antisemitism at anyone who criticizes Zionism in an attempt to weaken widening popular support for the Palestinian cause.

In his speech, Mr. Greenblatt said the following: We will not stop speaking out against injustice whether against Orthodox Jews or the unaffiliated; Ashkenazi or Sephardi or Mizrahi; but also will not stop speaking out on behalf of all minorities, Mormons and Muslims, Bahai and Buddhists, AAPI and LGBTQ, and anyone who is targeted and victimized because of their identity.

Does this mean the ADL is prepared to speak out against the expulsion (read: forcible transfer) by Israel (with the sanction of Israels High Court of Justice) of at least 1,000 Palestinian Muslim residents of Masafer Yatta in the West Banks South Hebron Hills, who have been living there for generations, so that the Israeli army may use it as a firing zone? Up to twelve Palestinian villages will be destroyed and with them, a living Bedouin culture.

We believe that the best way to fight antisemitism is for Jews to join with other groups that are fighting racism and the rise of white supremacy. Especially now, when minority rights in particular are under siege on so many fronts, attacking justice organizations in the name of Jewish safety makes us all less safe. Throwing charges of antisemitism at anti-racist organizations weakens what should be a common struggle. Mr. Greenblatts statement seems to be solidifying progressive condemnation of the ADL. MajorMuslim,Jewishandsocial justiceorganizations are beginning to distance themselves and calling on other progressivesto reconsider the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a partner in social justice work.

Towards the end of his address to the ADL Summit, Mr. Greenblatt said, We will not be silent. We will not be deterred. We will not be passive in the face of prejudice.

Neither will we, Mr. Greenblatt.

(Elsa Auerbach, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Massachusetts Boston, Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Eve Spangler, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College.)

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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France and SAN DIEGO(BUSINESS WIRE)Regulatory News:

Verimatrix, (Euronext Paris: VMX) (Paris:VMX), the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, today announced Verimatrix App Shield, part of the companys Extended Threat Defense family of products, won this years Global Infosec Award for Most Comprehensive Mobile Application Security.

Providing fast yet comprehensive protection for mobile apps, developers turn to App Shield for powerful no-code protection against potentially devastating threats such as reverse engineering, application repackaging, emulators, debuggers and more. In 2021, Verimatrix was named winner in the Next Gen for Application Security category, marking ongoing recognition for its application shielding technology that continues to protect a growing number of apps worldwide spanning industries such as automotive, finance and medical.

Verimatrix uniquely combines ease of use with security innovations that make App Shield an appealing option for protecting an app for publishing on the app stores, said Asaf Ashkenazi, Chief Operating Officer and President at Verimatrix. Were pleased to receive this repeated honor, as we are committed to providing a streamlined path toward powerful protections freeing up app developers to focus on their core business while still providing peace of mind that vital intellectual property, source code, APIs and personal data are safe.

App Shield injects protections directly into an Android APK or iOS xcarchive package via a zero-code SaaS service that takes only minutes to use. App Shield support various mobile app programming languages such as Swift, Kotlin, Java, C, C++ and Obj-C. A video introducing App Shield and its benefits is available at http://www.verimatrix.com/products/app-shield.

The industry award program has been organized by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) for the last 10 years. Its judges are CISSP, FMDHS, and CEH certified security professionals who vote based on their independent review of company submissions. For more information about the award program, visit http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com.

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Dr. Bernard Allan Lublin, of Henrico, Va., died June 5, 2022, at the age of 85.

A graduate of Yale University and New York University Medical School, Bernie served as Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy before moving to Richmond in 1960 to complete an internship and residency in orthopedic surgery at Medical College of Virginia. He made Richmond his home and his dear Bobbie his wife. And while helping to raise three relatively obedient children, he materially improved the lives of many thousands of patients through the decades since as an Orthopedic Surgeon.

His love of sailing naturally led him to the Chesapeake and many beautiful cruises along the Piankatank River. Building a place in Deltaville, he cultivated grape vines and intricately pruned the crepe myrtle branches. He planted Japanese cherry trees, not for his own pleasure but to help make the world a more beautiful place for those who came after.

His love of learning and science permeated every aspect of his life. Any vacation abroad would be preceded by diligently studying several nonfiction books of the destination. In preparation for his trip to Israel he memorized Hatikvah, the national anthem. And any mysterious medical symptom was a problem to be fully investigated, solved and addressed.

Bernie always remembered the quote he first heard upon graduation from Yale, Well all do well; may some do good. And this inspiration guided him to his greatest career achievement. Long before the Internet made medical information readily available, Bernie scoured medical journals to learn how chromosomal mutations cause breast and ovarian cancer, primarily in women of Ashkenazi-Jewish descent. He founded the Jewish Genetic Foundation (now part of American Technion Society), convinced the National Comprehensive Cancer Network to change their guidelines for the prophylactic treatment of these diseases and he convinced Myriad Genetics to develop and license pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for the first time ever, anywhere in the world.

Over the past 25 years, he happily formed a strong group of snowbird friends in Naples, Fla., with whom he regularly attended Temple Shalom, the Phil, every speaker series available and ROMEO Retired Old Men Eating Out. And he actively engaged in the charitable community there, receiving the 2016 Jewish National Fund of Southwest Floridas Lifetime Achievement Award.

And he loved spending time with his grandchildren Oliver, Ava, Isaac, Nate and Caroline hungry for details of their daily activities. He happily played quadruple solitaire with them, recognizing all along he was merely cannon fodder.

Bernie was the beloved husband of 58 years of Bobbie Grossman Lublin; cherished father of Suzie (Brett) Tiplitz, Keith (Betsy) Lublin and Kathi Lublin; loving Poppa of Oliver and Isaac Lublin, Ava and Nate Paul and Caroline Tiplitz; survived by brother, Richard (Chris) Lublin; sister-in-law, Estelle (Jerry zl) Grossman; nieces, Karen (Jon) Morton, Nancy (Jason) Lublin; nephews, Peter (Michele) Lublin, Richard (Bethany) Grossman; and countless other loving extended family and friends.

Devoted son of the late Anna and Raymond Lublin, of Hartford, Conn.

Graveside services held at Hebrew Cemetery, 11am on Wednesday, June 8.

In lieu of flowers, it is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of Dr. Bernard Lublin may do so by enjoying a York Peppermint Pattie and making a contribution to American Technion Society, Jewish National Fund Halutza Communities, or a charity of ones choice.

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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My grandmother and mother, as well as an aunt and a cousin, have had breast cancer. Another cousin was diagnosed with colon cancer recently. It has been suggested that I undergo genetic counseling to determine my cancer risk. As a young man, is genetic testing necessary for me? What benefit would I gain from visiting a genetic counselor?

ANSWER: Although it can be daunting to have a loved one diagnosed with cancer, having a family history does not mean that you will automatically get cancer. This is one of the reasons why having a discussion with a genetic counselor can be valuable.

A genetic counselor is someone who reviews your personal health history and your family's health history to identify your personal risk for certain conditions. A genetic counselor can try to determine if there is a pattern or connection among family members' diagnoses and how that may affect you.

For instance, you mentioned that your grandmother, mom and a cousin have had breast cancer, but it's unclear if all of these women are on the same side of the family. If they are all related for example they are all on the maternal side of your family then that suggests more of a pattern that could potentially increase your risk, even as a man. Breast cancer affects men, too, though it occurs more infrequently.

People seem to be most aware of genetic counseling when it comes to breast cancer. This likely is due to the fact that the most common genes associated with increased breast cancer risk BRCA1 and BRCA2 have received a lot of media attention over the years. In general, though, only about 5%-10% of breast cancers have a hereditary cause that can be identified. If a hereditary cause for breast cancer is discovered, this condition may increase the risk for other types of cancer, as well.

Other cancers that may have a hereditary connection include ovarian, colon, prostate, uterine and pancreatic cancers. Concerns for a hereditary cancer syndrome rise if people are diagnosed at younger ages, have a personal history of more than one cancer, or have multiple family members with the same or associated cancers. This information may be useful for you if you decide to have children. You'll be able to determine the likelihood that you might pass along a gene and increase the risk to your offspring for certain cancers.

Meeting with a genetic counselor doesn't immediately mean that you need genetic testing. Rather, the goal of the appointment is to have a discussion that can guide you toward making an informed decision regarding genetic testing. Discussing the potential risks and limitations of genetic testing are just as important as reviewing potential benefits of testing.

Another benefit of meeting with a genetic counselor is to learn more about your family risk for certain conditions, which could be valuable in the future. For instance, understanding your risk for cancer is important, but learning about certain hereditary heart and neurologic conditions, as well as more rare genetic conditions like cystic fibrosis, might help with family planning down the road.

Sometimes reviewing all of this information together allows things to be put in a new context. For some families, it illustrates a clear pattern of increased risk for certain conditions. In other cases, though, it may lower your concern.

I recall a young woman who came to see me to discuss her significant family history of cancer. But as we began charting her family tree, we realized that only a few relatives had developed skin cancer, and they worked outdoors on a farm or in construction. In reality, her cancer risk was minimal given her lifestyle.

Although it can be challenging to learn about the details of your family's health tree, especially if prior generations didn't share as much or document health concerns, it is important to talk with your family prior to meeting with a genetic counselor if you can.

Family history should be gathered for three or four generations on both sides, and include parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and children.

Helpful information to gather includes:

Major medical conditions and the age they started.

Cause and age of death.

Birth defects.

Family's ethnic background, as some conditions can be more prevalent in certain ethnicities. For instance, if someone is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, the risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome is greater than in the general population.

A good resource to help you get started is a free online tool called My Family Health Portrait. This tool is available through the surgeon general's office. It allows you to collect the information and create a family pedigree that can be printed and shared with health care professionals and your family.

As you discuss your family history, don't forget to talk about conditions that may not have a strictly genetic cause but may have a genetic link. Although there are conditions such as diabetes where a genetic test is not available, it's important to document the patterns in your family and share them with your primary care provider. Sarah Mantia, Clinical Genomics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

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