Illness and Death

Debate on payment for organ donations

Should present bans on payment remain intact or would legalizing payment increase the safety of organ donations and reduce the gap between organ supply and demand? Erica Zaken, MPH in Bioethics, and Michael Grodin, MD, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, take issue with an interview with Robert Berman, founder and director of the New York based Halachic Organ Donor Society, that appeared in the Jerusalem Report.

• An Interview with Robert Berman, by LESLIE SUSSER
• Organs on the Open Market: Too High a Price, by ERICA A. ZAKEN and MICHAEL A. GRODIN

Organ Donation: The Gift of Life

By RABBI BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON

Why has the issue of organ donation become more complicated than it really ought to be?

Reach Out and Touch Someone

By RABBI CHERYL PERETZ

As long as people are sick, there is a need to help ease their pain, physical and spiritual.

A Gay’s Perspective on Punishment and Disease

By RABBI RODERICK YOUNG

God is present in AIDS, cancer, polio, in all diseases, for God is present when we visit the sick and raise money to fight disease. But a disease is not God’s punishment. Those who assert otherwise slander God and the ill.