The founder and director of the Tru Birth Center wants women to feel empowered by their natural birth experience
In college I met my husband, also from the Detroit area, and during our junior year, we studied together at Hebrew University. Both of us came from more secular backgrounds, and it was during that year that we had our first exposure to Shabbos.
When it came time to apply to medical school, my guidance counselor told me that the competitive environment combined with government quotas made it unlikely that I’d get into an American medical school. Ben-Gurion University had a collaborative program with Columbia University, and I applied to Ben-Gurion and was accepted. That’s when we really started our journey in Israel.
My husband and I got married in June and moved to Be’er Sheva in August, which in 2000 was a completely different place from what it is now. It was so hot. I felt the warmest there I’d ever felt.
My anatomy professor in medical school was Modern Orthodox, and we spent a lot of Shabbosim in their house. That was the first exposure to a kind of Yiddishkeit that I could identify with. By my third year of medical school, my husband was really very interested in becoming frum, and he ended up going to Aish HaTorah.
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