For those who weren’t in NYC or are too young to remember anything, I highly recommend the book Even in the Darkest Moments by Zeev Breir, which contains personal accounts of 9/11 from brave Hatzolah volunteers who were there on the scene. (Did you know that the first ambulance to arrive was Hatzolah?) All proceeds from the sale of the book are donated to Hatzolah. I read it over Rosh Hashanah and it left a deep impression on me. It is a very fitting read for this time of year, both in the secular calendar and the Judaic calendar. The quality of writing is not superb, but the content of the stories is so powerful that it really didn’t matter to me.
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