The Jewish Nurse: Love In the Face of Evil Gives Others Hope
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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem<Sr
Victims' Stars of David outside the Tree of Life. Photo by Matt Rourke/AP
by: Abby Zimet
After killing 11 Jews at the Tree of Life and being wounded in a shoot-out with police, Robert Bowers was wheeled, yelling "Death to all Jews," into Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital. There, he was first treated by the attending emergency room doctor and a registered trauma nurse. Both were Jewish. Now the nurse, Ari Mahler, has written a moving account of the day. The son of a rabbi and a former honors student at the University of Maryland, he worked as a financial consultant before going back to school to become a nurse. His entire family were members of the Tree of Life congregation; when he encountered Bowers, he still didn't know whether or not h...