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A network of support
Dr. Miriam Knoll. (Courtesy)
In addition to JOWMA, several more organizations offer support to the thousands of Orthodox Jewish women working in various areas of medicine.
Brooklyn native Rochel Leah Lehrer is a physician assistant (PA) in neurosurgery at Westchester Medical Center in New York. When at age 11 Lehrer lost her younger brother after he was hit by a car outside his school in Brooklyn, she knew she wanted to “make people feel better and try to heal everybody.” She has been working in the field for some 20 years.
“I started PA school [at Touro College] when I was 20,” Lehrer said. “We were only two frum girls in my class.”
New-yorkUnited-statesWestchesterMarylandBrooklynIsraelNew-york-universityAmericanAdena-homnickTamar-itzkowitzEsther-neumanWeinstock-neubergerAll of Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, went eerily quiet.
On that cold November afternoon in 2019, there was no sound in the school’s hallways except for the echoing of footsteps, going door to door between classrooms. Students and teachers crouched in the corners of the rooms, concealed by darkness. One young girl covered her mouth with her hands to prove she was keeping quiet.
Michael Thompson, assistant director in the Syracuse City School District’s Security Department, unlocked one of the doors and peeked into a third-grade classroom where some students huddled behind a teacher’s desk.
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