Jewish Values

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Are Jews allowed to donate organs?

Rabbi Billy Dreskin

Jewish law does, in fact, permit organ donation! Whatever you have heard, whatever you thought you learned, set that all aside. Jewish law permits us to sign our donor cards and, when someone we love dies, to use their body to save other lives

Jewish Learning

Organ Donation: Heaven Knows We Need Them Here!

Rabbi Billy Dreskin

By and large, the Jewish legal tradition has never opposed organ donation. For nearly 2,000 years, it has laid the groundwork in favor of such actions. And the Reform Movement has supported and encouraged it for many years now.

Passover

On Jewish Unity

Lindsey Cohen

May 2, 2013

I met him on my flight back to Boston from Atlanta. He was a Muslim student from Dubai, I was a Jewish student from the United States. We had come from very different places but were on our way to the same university.

As the flight took off, we started a

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Judaism and Earth Day: Three Things to Remember

Rabbi Evan Moffic

Protecting our planet is not just a scientific or political issue. It is a religious, spiritual imperative. We find this truth embodied in three core Jewish values.

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Jewish History

Yom HaShoah: The Remembrance of Many

Rabbi P.J. Schwartz

April 5, 2013

Yom HaShoah challenges the covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish people, forcing us to question God's presence in our lives, to struggle with the reality that our world remains filled with inequality, and to vow "Never again."