Is Organ Donation Allowed? - Part 1

Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz received his Rabbinical Ordination from the Ner Israel Rabbinical College; B.S. with honors from Johns Hopkins University; J.D (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School and a Doctorate in Talmudic Law from Ner Israel. He has lectured extensively throughout the US and Israel on medical, business, and family ethics, and published numerous articles on bankruptcy, commercial law, medical ethics, family law, and halakha. He served as rabbi of the Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring MD, and was Professor of Law at the University of Maryland before making Aliyah to Israel.

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