[Family] Fwd: Jewish Tribe Pride

[Judith Stagliano]

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*Judith Stagliano*
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From: Judye Yellon <judyeyellon at aol.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: Jewish Tribe Pride
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Barbara Scher <bscher at gmail.com>, Sandy Friedman <Sandybug7 at aol.com>, Judy
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*From:* Judye Yellon <judyeyellon at aol.com>
*Date:* December 14, 2020 at 9:21:51 AM EST
*To:* Juliet Greer <julietgreer1 at gmail.com>
*Subject:* *Re: Jewish Tribe Pride*

Cool

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On Dec 14, 2020, at 8:26 AM, Juliet Greer <julietgreer1 at gmail.com> wrote:



I thought you might be interested -

Mikael Dolsten, Chief Scientific Officer at Pfizer, is Jewish.  He grew up
in Halmstad, Sweden, the son of a Jewish father with prewar roots in Sweden
and a Jewish mother who escaped Austria in the early days of WWII. He
visited Israel several times as a youngster and did a year of his doctoral
work at the Weizmann Institute.  There he learned cutting edge immunology
which led him to pharmaceutical science.  Dolsten has referred in
interviews to rising anti-Semitism in Sweden.

Pfizer CEO Albert Borla is a Sephardic Jew from Thessalonika, Greece, a
city whose Jewish population was almost completely wiped out during WWII.
The Borla family's history in Thessalonika goes back 5 centuries, and Borla
visits his remaining family members there yearly. He now lives in New York
City.

The Chief Medical Officer for Moderna, a Cambridge, Mass.- based company,
is an Israeli immigrant named Tal Zaks. Previously, he served as head of
Global Oncology at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. Zaks received his M.D. and PhD.
degrees at Ben Gurion University and conducted post-doc research at the
NIH.

The scientist responsible, with a colleague, for the pioneering
breakthroughs that allowed the development of an mRNA vaccine (the novel
approach used by Moderna and Pfizer for dealing with COVID-19) is
University of Pennsylvania's Drew Weissman. A Professor of Medicine at
Penn, he received his BA and MA degrees at Brandeis and MD/Microbiology and
PhD at Boston U.  Weissman once worked with a fellowship at the NIH under
Dr. Fauci.

Final related notes:  President-Elect Joe Biden this week named his new
head for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC"):  Dr.
Rochelle Walensky, Professor Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief
of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital.  She works as a
physician at a Jewish camp for a week each summer.  Also in the clan is
Jeff Zients, who will be Biden's overseer for the entire federal
coronavirus response.  Zients led the successful effort to fix the
government's Health.gov <http://health.gov/> website when it became damaged
during the launch of the Affordable Care Act.

Remember that we are less than 2% of the US population.
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