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Image above is from the website of Ezra Nashim, the only women-oriented Hasidic EMT group in the country.

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New York - An all-girls Hasidic EMT organization is requesting an ambulance licence from the city — sparking outrage from an Orthodox guys-only crew that does not want them to exist in the first place.

As reported by the NYpost.com, Ezras Nashim — America’s initial ladies-only EMT group — argued Wednesday for permission to work an ambulance inside of a two-square mile spot of Borough Park to provide Orthodox ladies who experience uncomfortable being cared for by male very first responders.

“It’s the cultural norm of ladies in the Brooklyn Hasidic group to lead their life in modesty,” Jim Deering, the group’s attorney, stated for the duration of a community hearing at Methodist Hospital Wednesday evening.

“It is that cultural modesty and the trauma that can outcome from it not becoming honored that varieties the need for Ezras Nashim’s ambulance software,” Deering mentioned.

Ezras Nashim – Hebrew for “helping women” – released in 2012 just after the gals have been denied membership in the Orthodox ambulance corps Hatzaloh.

The men have have continued to oppose the crew, arguing that it is conceited for the women of all ages to just take up EMS roles and that their companies are redundant because a team of rabbis claimed it was Ok for Hatzaloh to treat women.

Hatzaloh supporters arrived out in complete force Wednesday to oppose the women’s bid for an ambulance.

“We have considered the modesty issue a lot of instances around the a long time … [and] have concluded that the involved dangers of having two emergency services so disparate … much outweigh the positive aspects to the local community,” testified Borough Park Rabbi Yechiel Kaufman.


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“Having many EMS products and services in the very same community will [cause] confusion as to who must handle the emergency, creating hold off and opportunity disaster.”

Kaufman is a person of 49 rabbis who formally appose Ezras Nashim’s software.

A number of women at the listening to stressed that they must have the choice to be taken care of by a female EMT.

“As a female it is her inborn nature to be comfortable with one more female,” reported Miriam Sprei, a doula, EMT and a mom of 12.

Leah Levine, daughter of Ezras Nashim founder and president Rachel Freier, additional: “It’s the aspiration of so lots of ladies to have their demands achieved.”

“Make place for one more organization,” known as Rachel Schmidt, a psychotherapist who serves Brooklyn’s Hasidic communities. “Make place for a female who prefers the providers of a woman professional medical expert.”

Celia Pomerantz, a nurse who volunteers for Ezras Nashim claimed the worry of staying handled by a person, for some, can trigger “lasting actual physical trauma.”

“We are taught that sure areas of our bodies should be private and can not be noticed or touched by one more gentleman, besides our husbands … this is the tradition of modesty,” Pomerantz explained.

But university principal Rachel Mandelbaum, who was assisted by Hatzaloh when she was in labor, stated she had no trouble becoming treated by a male.

“They acted so properly which calmed me to an extraordinary degree,” Mandelbaum mentioned.

The city’s Regional Emergency Health-related Providers Council will make its final decision on Ezras Nashim’s petition at a later on day.


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