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Oct 23, 2023, 9:17 PM

Two Soldiers Saved 10 More Lives After They Died

Roi Nahari z"l and Amichai Rubin z"l (Photos Courtesy of the Families)

Two IDF soldiers killed at the beginning of the war saved many Israelis in both their short lifetimes and their deaths. Roi Nahari z”l and Amichai Rubin z”l were killed while fighting in separate locations (Roi in Kfar Aza,...

Aug 10, 2023, 12:37 PM

We kidney donors must make this difficult commitment on our own terms

Arnon Segal donated a kidney on July 10, 2023, on the condition it would go to a Jew. (courtesy, Beilinson Hospital and Soroka Medical Center)

Turning down willing donors for limiting who can get their organs means more patients die, a terrible price for ideological purity

Jonathan Muskat

May 4, 2023, 5:21 AM

The Brain Death Controversy in Light of Recent Events

Yesterday, I choked up watching a very moving video that went viral. It was a video of the Dee family meeting the patients whose lives were saved by the organ donations of Lucy Dee, who, along with two of...

Jan 17, 2023, 2:57 PM

Time to Implement a Pay for Kidney Program

Early last week I received a somewhat sobering WhatsApp message about an old friend whose lingering illness has become considerably more serious and is in dire need of a kidney transplant. There were found no suitable matches from anyone...

Michael Zoosman

Jul 9, 2022, 12:06 AM

July 13: Pro-life Texas to kill a man Before he can Donate a Life-Saving Organ

Some of the letters and artwork sent by Ramiro Gonzales to Cantor Michael Zoosman (no copyright; photo by author)

Shalom Aleichem Texans, On July 13th, the proud “pro-life” state of Texas is scheduled to prevent someone from saving another human life…by killing him. July 13th is the date that you will be putting to death a man whose dying...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 1, 2022, 12:30 AM

In defense of Safed’s Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

The chief rabbi is denied entry into the US as if a terrorist. Who is he? The Sages of the Talmud tell us that G^d promised to make the children of our leaders small generally, so that the Jewish People...

Michael Feldstein

Oct 17, 2021, 6:55 PM

Broad Shoulders: A Tribute to Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, zt”l

I didn’t know Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler, of blessed memory, very well. I met him personally three, maybe four, times. There are certainly many of his students and colleagues who are better suited to write a tribute to him...

Oct 14, 2021, 8:58 PM

On not donating bone marrow

Of course I want my life to have meaning. I want to do things that matter. But I'm afraid I have nothing more to contribute to the world, not even my marrow

Sivan Rahav Meir

Apr 13, 2021, 3:55 PM

The revolutions of Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber

Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, founder of the "Matnat Chaim" organization, at the courtroom of the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on September 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The trailblazer, who died last year of COVID-19, launched a life-saving initiative after he himself received a kidney transplant

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