; Jonas Salk, a virologist who developed a vaccine against polio; and Albert Einstein who was named Time magazine’s Person of the Century for his contributions to the study of mathematics and physics; Whereas Jewish-American athletes excelled at sports while staying true to their heritage such as Sandy Koufax, who was the first major league pitcher to pitch four no-hitters and chose not to pitch during a World Series game when it fell on Yom Kippur, and Hank Greenberg, who was the first Jewish inductee in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954; Whereas Jewish-American women have made significant contributions to American politics and activism, including Ernestine Rose, a Jewish immigrant who raised her voice to resist slavery and fight for women’s suffrage and Florence Prag Kahn, the first Jewish woman Member of Congress and first woman to serve on the House Military Affairs Committee; Whereas Jewish Americans long advocated for the education of all including Julius Rosenwald, who partnered with Booker T. Washington to invest in the education of Black students and built thousands of schools for Black students in 15 States in the South; Whereas the Jewish community has long been involved in the civil rights movement; Whereas Henry Moskowitz joined with civil rights activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909; Whereas Jack Greenberg argued against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education as co-counsel to Thurgood Marshall and succeeded Marshall as Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Whereas, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, half of the young people who went to Mississippi were Jewish, including Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered along with African-American activist James Chaney due to their efforts to register Black voters; Whereas Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel served as a close ally and advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., marching with him from Montgomery to Selma in 1964