NY approves ambulance permit for Orthodox female EMTs after years-long fight
After several years of bureaucratic battles, Ezras Nashim, the emergency medical services volunteer organization that caters to Orthodox women in New York City, was granted an ambulance permit Thursday. The 23-2 vote by the state’s Regional Emergency Medical Services Council will allow Ezras Nashim to improve and expand their operations, said Leah Freier Levine, the…