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COMMUNITYBRIEFS Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance
Foundation Names Co-Chairs
THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST Remembrance
Foundation has named Jake Reiter and Matt Pestronk
co-chairs of the organization’s board of directors.

Former chair David Adelman will remain a PHRF
board member and part of the executive committee.

Pestronk, president of Post Brothers Apartments,
and Reiter, president of Verde Capital Corp., have
each served on the executive board for five years.

The organization also named five new board
members. They are Matthew J. Meltzer, an associate
at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; Tony Payton,
a partner at government relations firm David Scott
Partners and a former member of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives; David Waxman, the
co-founder and managing partner of real estate
development firm MMPartners; Justin Wineburgh,
president and CEO of creative studio Alkemy X; and
Jonathan S. Krause, the co-chair of the litigation
department at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg.

The PHRF said in a news release that it will launch
new programs designed to provide enhanced Holocaust
education. It also is developing curricula and teacher
trainings about the common ground between racism
and anti-Semitism.

The flagship program of the organization, which is a
nonprofit that educates the public about the Holocaust,
was the expansion of the Horwitz-Wasserman
Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Center City.

Street as a commercial zone that was pedestrian
friendly and played a key role in renovating proper-
ties in Center City and Manayunk, among other
areas. Aside from serving on the board of the Albert M.

Greenfield Foundation, he was involved in the devel-
opment of Dilworth Park and the Arden Children’s
Theatre. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investment
banker and a corporate bond trader.

Greenfield’s grandfather was known as “Mr.

Philadelphia” for his involvement in develop-
ment, politics and civic affairs. Those included the
1944 acquisition of the financially troubled Jewish
Exponent, which he turned over to the Allied Jewish
Appeal, the precursor to the Jewish Federation of
Greater Philadelphia.

Greenfield is survived by his wife, Wendy; three
sons, Aaron, Matthew and Jason; four grandchildren;
and two sisters.

Philanthropist Shirley Shils Dies at 100
Philanthropist Shirley Shils died Feb. 1 at her Penn
Valley home. She was 100.

Shils and her late husband, Dr. Edward B. Shils,
were involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors.

Shils served on the board and executive committee
of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for
Jewish Life, as vice president of the Federation of
Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia, and as
chair of the Women’s Division of Philadelphia Allied
Jewish Appeal’s Israeli Emergency Fund.

The couple endowed the Edward B. Shils and
Shirley R. Shils Term Professorship in Entrepreneurial
Management at the University of Pennsylvania in
2001. Earlier, they endowed the Edward B. and
Shirley R. Shils Term Professorship in Arbitration
and Alternative Dispute Resolution at Penn’s Carey
Law School.

Penn Dental Medicine named the school’s state of
the art clinic after Edward and Shirley Shils in 2017.

Shils is survived by children Ronnie Burak, Nancy
Shils and Edward Barry Shils, two grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.

Nemours duPont Hospital for Children
Opens Kosher Pantry
Nemours duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington,
Delaware, opened a new kosher pantry in January to
make meal preparation and storage convenient for
Jewish families keeping kosher.

The pantry, which is available at all times, has
a full-sized refrigerator, a microwave, cabinets for
storage and space for meal preparation and clean-up.

“By being culturally aware and recognizing the
importance of having kosher food readily available and
the space with which to prepare it, we can enhance the
patient experience while understanding we all want
the same thing, the very best for the children entrusted
to our care,” said Cindy Bo, senior vice president of University of Pennsylvania Doctor
Delaware Valley strategy and business development at Wins Israeli Dan David Prize
Nemours Children’s Health System.

University of Pennsylvania cancer cell therapy
pioneer Dr. Carl June was named a 2021 Dan David
Real Estate Developer Albert M. Greenfield III
Prize laureate.

Dies at 65
The Dan David Prize is endowed by the Dan David
Real estate developer and corporate bond trader Albert Foundation at Tel Aviv University, which annually
M. Greenfield III, whose grandfather and father were awards three $1 million prizes.

major Philadelphia-area real estate financiers, died
June is the Richard W. Vague Professor in
Feb. 7 from Alzheimer’s disease complications, The Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology
Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School
Greenfield acquired his grandfather’s company of Medicine at Penn and director of the Center
and renamed it Albert M. Greenfield & Company, for Cellular Immunotherapies at Penn’s Abramson
Inc. in 1990. He was known for promoting Chestnut Cancer Center.

JEWISHEXPONENT.COM JEWISH EXPONENT
He was recognized in the “future” category for his
contributions to molecular medicine, including his
work in developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)
T cell therapy, which in August 2017 was the first
Food and Drug Administration-approved personal-
ized cellular therapy for cancer.

June will share the $1 million prize with Dr.

Steven Rosenberg, chief of the surgery branch at the
Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer
Institute, and Dr. Zelig Eshhar, an immunologist at
the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv
Sourasky Medical Center.

The Dan David Prize is endowed by the Dan David
Foundation at Tel Aviv University, which annually
awards three $1 million prizes. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
MAZELTOVS BIRTH
CARSON SHAE WEINTRAUB
Gary and Erin Weintraub of Chicago announce
the birth of their daughter, Carson Shae
Weintraub, who was born on Oct. 19, 2020.

Sharing in the family’s happiness are brother
Hunter; great-grandmother Eleanor Belson of
Bal Harbour, Florida; grandparents Susan and
Stanley Weintraub of Havertown and Rhonda
and Stuart Salins of Highland Park, Illinois; aunt
Dayna, uncle Larry Weintraub and cousins Jonah
and Noam Weintraub; uncle Louis Weintraub,
aunt Samantha Jones and cousins Matthew,
Ethan and Zoe Weintraub; aunt Lauren Salins,
uncle Alex Solomon and cousin Eve; and aunt
Nisa and uncle Jordan Salins.

Carson’s Hebrew name is Mina. She is named
for her maternal great-great-grandmother, Mina
Bromberg. Photo by Gary Weintraub
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