Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club & Sisterhood Donate Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Ambulance and Intensive Care Medi-Cycle Motorcycle via AFMDA for War Effort
On Sunday, Oct. 29, the Men’s Club and the Sisterhood of the Great Neck Synagogue raised over $200,000 to sponsor a Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) Ambulance and an Intensive Care Medi-Cycle Motorcycle—equipped with advanced life support and intensive care modalities—via the American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA). All funds raised will be matched by the generosity of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
From the left: Jack Lipsky, GNS Men’s Club Board Member and Co-Chairman, AFMDA event; Men’s Club Board Member Capt. Fred Shaw and wife Barbara; guest speaker Ali Bernstein, Assoc. Director Major Gifts AFMDA; Meryl Friedman, wife of GNS Men’s Club President and Co-Chairman, AFMDA event Mark Friedman; Judy Lillien, Co-President GNS Sisterhood and Co-Chairperson AFMDA event; Drora Brody, Sisterhood Life Member and wife of GNS Men’s Club Board Member and Committee Member AFMDA event, Dr. Paul Brody. (Photo credit: Jill@Jillpics.com)
In peaceful times, AFMDA builds the ambulances in America, and ships them to Israel via cargo ship, which takes many months to reach Israel. The ongoing war has accelerated the need and demand for ambulances. A generous donor has offered to speed up the process by flying the newly-minted ambulances via cargo plane and paying for the expedited transportation of these life-saving vehicles.
(L-R): Committee Member, AFMD event Jeffrey Wiesenfeld; GNS Men’s Club Board Members and Committee Members AFMD event Dr. Robert Knepper and Dr. Paul Brody; GNS President Donny Aharon; Jack Lipsky, GNS Men’s Club Board Member and Co-Chairman, AFMDA event; GNS Rabbi Dale Polakoff; Assistant Rabbi Moshe Genack; Men’s Club Board Members and Committee Members AFMDA event Capt. Fred Shaw, Dr. James Frisch, Steven Blumner and David Rein, Esq.(Photos by jill@jillpics.com)Richard Lillien, Community Security Services (CSS) team; Judy Lillien, Co-President GNS Sisterhood and Co-Chairperson AFMDA event; Jim Frisch, Ass’t. Exec. Director GNS, CSS team, GNS Men’s Club Board Member, AFMDA event Committee Member; Ori Pagovich, AFMDA event Committee Member; Jack Lipsky, GNS Men’s Club Board Member and Co-Chairman AFMDA event; GNS Assistant Rabbi Moshe Genack; Men’s Club Board Member, Committee Member AFMDA event, CSS team, Capt. Fred Shaw, Barbara Shaw; Sisterhood Life Member Meryl Friedman, wife of GNS Men’s Club President and Co-Chairman AFMDA event Mark Friedman; guest speaker Ali Bernstein, Assoc. Director Major Gifts AFMDA; Sisterhood Life Member Sharon Herman; Dr. Rob Herman, GNS Men’s Club Board Member, AFMDA event Committee Member, CSS team; Dr. Paul Brody, GNS Men’s Club Board Member and Committee Member AFMDA event; Drora Brody, Sisterhood Life Member; Rebbitzen Ellen Polakoff; Liz Berney, Esq., ZOA Dir. of Research & Special Projects
—Submitted by the American Friends of Magen David Adom
