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Trump meeting with the rebbes: Maimonides crisis brought up: The proposed New York City takeover of Maimonides Medical Center that has roiled Brooklyn’s Jewish community was brought up to President Trump during the historic meeting with five rebbes and a rosh yeshiva yesterday. • Among several other topics, Reb Yoel Rosenfeld, an askan who came with the Bobover rebbe’s entourage, asked Trump if the federal government can get involved in keeping Boro Park’s premier hospital private. He said that there were a few avenues where the federal government can prevent it which he enumerated in a file; he said he would follow up separately with the Department of Justice officials. • The hospital’s pending merger, which appears increasingly likely to receive its final state approvals shortly, would place Maimonides under the city’s Health + Hospitals department. Hospital officials say it would trigger hundreds of millions of dollars in state grants and higher Medicaid reimbursement rates. The fear in the community is that the hospital’s top rated doctors would leave and patient service that is based on Jewish law would suffer.