Getting the inside track on insides
| 3:00 PM Jan 28, 2010
Israel is infamous for having one of the lowest organ-donation rates in the developed world: a paltry 8% of Israelis are listed as organ donors, compared to roughly 35% in most Western countries. The problem is mainly that many observant Jews believe (incorrectly) that a body must be buried with all its organs intact.
Yesterday, a ...
Organ donation, the mitzvah not enough of us keep
| 7:00 AM Nov 9, 2009
The other day, Josie was reading my dad’s website. Dad died in 2004, when Josie was almost three. His site, which he started in the late ’90s, is a living testament to his entertaining lunacy. A stream-of-consciousness blog from an era before blogs, it contains Dad’s epic restaurant reviews, copies of his ranting letters to ...
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