For Leah Levine, the arrival of an ambulance is a dream come true.
“I feel like I’m dreaming. This has been such a life-long dream of ours,” she said.
Levine helps lead the volunteer emergency technician group Ezras Nashim in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
“Nashim is women and Ezras means the help of, to help women,” she explained.
It’s the first all-women EMT team to provide emergency medical care in the Orthodox Hassidic community, which has a tradition of gender separation.
Read more at NY1.
{Matzav.com}
Listen to David Lichtenstein’s segment on this group. Quite interesting.
I thought the Ezras Nashim is on the other side of the Mechitza…..
Exactly. Thats why men shouldn’t treat women about to give birth
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baloney. so your holier than your grandparents and parents generation etc?
a innovation where none was necessary. adding a unnecessary geder!
FYI leah levine is Mrs Frier daughter
Which hospital will they be bringing their patients to?