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May 13, 2019

How a Jewish Volunteer Medical Service Saves Lives in New Jersey

United Rescue should be invited to more cities.

Since 2015, United Rescue, an emergency medical-response organization based on Israel’s United Hatzalah—which in turn developed out of volunteer ambulance services in ḥasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn—has operated in Jersey City in cooperation with the municipal government. As an all-volunteer philanthropy, United Rescue receives payment from neither the city nor its patients. To Brandon Fuller, it has been an unqualified success:

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