As women across America fight new battles over their rights and run for office in unprecedented numbers, they are also stepping into new roles in one of the country’s most traditional religious groups: Brooklyn’s Hasidic community.
Ep. 154: ‘93Queen,’ a documentary about Ezras Nashim, founded and staffed by Hasidic women as the first all-female-volunteer ambulance service in New York
It's a fascinating, intimate look at a world largely shrouded from outsiders but especially it's about a remarkable woman — Freier, 53, a mother of six, who would become the first Hasidic woman to hold public office in the United States.
Think feminism and Hasidism are polar opposites? Think again. Paula Eiselt’s first feature film, 93Queen, focuses on the battle to establish Ezras Nashim, a Hasidic women’s EMT group.
When I started college at New York University in 1990, nobody lived in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was the dark side of the moon. At least that’s how we NYU students thought about it.
NO FILM SCHOOL — When Paula Eiselt first came across an article in an online Yiddish publication about a group of Hasidic women forming an-all female EMT corps (Ezras Nashim), she was struck as if by lightning.
