Podcast: Start-Up Nation for the Humanities

(January 13, 2017)

A different kind of Tzedakah: Organ donation in Jewish law

Zev Farber, a rabbi and Hebrew Bible scholar, discusses his latest book Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death and the forthcoming sequel Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Organ Donation, showcasing a textbook example of how Jewish law had to adapt to modern realities.

Source: Tel Aviv Review Podcast.

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