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The Halachic Organ Donor Society educates Jews about different Halachic opinions concerning organ donation and offers people a unique organ donor card. Below are video interviews with Rabbis about their position on organ donation as well as two personal donation stories. To view these videos, you will need Real Player. You can download it from real.com.

[Please note: All the Rabbis featured below accept brain-stem death as death according to Jewish law. While there are many Rabbis that don’t hold this position, none that were approached by the HOD Society agreed to be interviewed on camera. You can, however, find papers explaining their position on our ‘articles’ page.]

Rabbi Avraham Steinberg, M.D.
Pediatric Neurologist

Rabbi Sha’ar Yoshuv Cohen
Chief Rabbi of Haifa

CNN Story on HODS

Rabbi Cohen

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
Chief Rabbi Bet El

Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, M.D.
Dean Schlesinger Institute

Goodman Family
Personal Story

English: 3 minutes

French: 2 minutes

Hebrew: 4 minutes

English Short: 1 minute

Hebrew: 14 minutes

English: 3 minutes


Rabbi Yigal Shafran, Ph.D.
Head of Merchavim

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Chief Rabbi Efrat

Felsman Family
Personal Story

English Short: 1 minutes

Hebrew Short: 2 minutes

Hebrew Full: 15 minutes

English: 5 minutes

Hebrew: 4 minutes

English: 2 minutes


Rabbi Yosef Carmel
Dean Eretz Chemdah

Short Film
Highlights of all Interviews

Mr. Chananya Shachor
Dir. of Jerusalem Burial Society

Rabbi Carmel

Rabbi Cohen

English Short: 1 minute

Hebrew: 5 minutes

English: 12 minutes

English: 2 minutes

Hebrew: 2 minutes


Mamoo Family
Personal Story

Mamoo Family

Hebrew: 5 minutes