In a most unlikely place, talented high schoolers from Maryland are getting high-level health research down to a science — and studying how to survive and thrive as frum professionals
Yet for the past three years, an unfamiliar breed has joined the fray: 11th and 12th graders from Baltimore’s Bnos Yisroel High School. These girls — bright, motivated, but not nearly as equipped as Stuyvesant’s finest — are enjoying a first-of-its-kind bridge program developed by NIH Core Manager Dr. Daniel Edelman, a Ner Israel Rabbinical College alumnus and valued member of Baltimore’s frum community. How did it happen?
“Nothing short of a miracle,” says Dr. Linda Samuels, science instructor at Bnos Yisroel. “The timing, the connections, the dedication of Dr. Edelman… Hashem just pulled it all together.”
Dr. Samuels — a former Californian and chiropractor by profession — had been teaching chemistry and physiology at Bnos Yisroel for four years when an ambitious student, Malka Katz, approached her.
“I really want to work in a lab this summer,” she said. “Can you help make this happen?”
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