Jerry Pollock

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Jerry Pollock is the author of seventy-five scientific publications. His background includes both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and Postdoctoral training in Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Pollock is currently Professor Emeritus in the Oral Biology and Pathology Department in the School of Dental Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island. Jerry’s first writer of the arts book, “Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul,” was a spiritual memoir originally published in 2003. The second edition of “Divinely Inspired” will be reissued in Paperback on Jan. 1, 2009. His ‘not so fictional’ novel, “Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God,” due out also on Jan. 1, 2009, is Jerry’s way of giving back to the Creator.

Historically, Jerry was born in Toronto. Jerry’s childhood, teenage, and young adult years were emotionally ravaged in an unloving, non-nurturing environment. Despite an unyielding anxiety and a neurotic repression of feelings, he succeeded in academics.

The beginnings of Jerry’s interest in scientific research and a Canadian scholarship to study abroad caused him to leave Toronto in 1966 for Israel. Jerry completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1969 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After finishing his doctorate, he left Toronto for the United States. He wound up as a Postdoctoral Fellow and subsequently as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine. In 1973, he moved to Long Island to join the faculty of the Oral Biology & Pathology Department of the School of Dental Medicine at Stony Brook University. In 1982, Jerry was promoted to full professor, and in 1983 Jerry married Marcia.

In 1990, he became an American citizen, but the following year Jerry suffered his first bout of Bipolar Disorder at age 50. In 1995, the Manic Depression forced him to take a five year long term disability from Stony Brook, but he returned in August of 2000 once again to take up his professorial duties. In July 2006, Jerry retired and became Professor Emeritus. As stated, Jerry has published seventy-five articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and books, and at one time held seven U.S. Patents. Unusual miraculous events of Divine intervention, described in both Divinely Inspired and Messiah Interviews, have led Jerry to a spiritual awakening and freedom from Bipolar Disorder. Today, Jerry is seeking inner peace by living each day with spiritual meaning in the Image of his Creator. Jerry is married to Marcia, his bashert or destined one. They reside in Florida.

Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God

Jerry J. Pollock, Ph.D.
Shechinah Third Temple, Inc. (2009)
ISBN 9780981721200
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (11/08)

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Synopsis: Ever since the Creation of Adam and Eve, man has grappled with knowing whether life exists after death. Because humans achieve the possible, while God accomplishes the impossible, only the Creator knows our fate and destiny at the End of Days. Scientist Jerry Pollock weaves his Messiah Interviews story of an imperfect life on Earth with an imaginative account of being interviewed in Heaven to be the Messiah. The writing becomes a testament to Divine morality, and to finding truth and sincerity in one's heart.

As readers embark on a journey of knowledge and understanding, they'll join Jerry on an exploration of the implications of biblical history on our modern world. Through a series of unexplainable events, Jerry empowers readers to decide if an additional personal spiritual effort is worth making in this life, in order to possibly gain entrance to an uncertain futuristic Garden of Eden, the Messianic Age. In a process of the dreamlike interviews with biblical personalities *the angel Gabriel, Methuselah, Chanoch, Seth, King David, Moses, Jacob, Abraham and the prophet Isaiah *Jerry is forced to bear his soul and his own hidden demons.

As human beings, we are all flawed.That's how the Creator made us. During the course of reading the book, readers have the opportunity to ponder the improvement of their own imperfections, in order to meet the requirements set out in the Messiah Interviews for admission into a future blissful life at the End of Days. The book is God-centered and discusses, briefly or at length, various topics, including The Ten Commandments, Creation, Evolution, Good and Evil, Primal Therapy, Bipolar Disorder, Resurrection, Aging, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Monotheistic Religions, Third Temple, Messiah, and the Messianic Age.