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Letter from HaRav Eliashiv shlita about Brain Death
I hereby reiterate my opinion, which I put on record on the
eighteenth of Menachem Av 5751, that according to our holy
Torah, as long as the heart beats, even though the patient
has suffered brain death, there is no license whatsoever to
remove any organ from his body.
During a rabbinical conference held at a Dead Sea hotel MK
Rabbi Moshe Gafni delivered a speech in which addressed the
bill regarding brain-dead patients on respirators proposed by
Otniel Schneller (Kadima), who was in attendance.
Rabbonim, dayonim and public figures expressed shock and firm
opposition following a further decline in the conversion
system in Eretz Yisroel with the setup of a government
conversion authority designed to speed up and push through
the conversions of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
State Comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss issued a report for
the 2007 fiscal year revealing serious of deficiencies at
local authorities in Israel. This section of the report
focuses on conditions at chareidi and Arab schools, safety
problems on school buses and minibuses, improper political
appointments, illegal cancellation of debts for individual
residents, and reckless and improper handling of lands
belonging to the authorities.
(Distributed by GPO)
In contrast with the numbers published in the Palestinian
census of February 9, 2008, the accurate number of Judea &
Samaria Arabs is 1.5 million, and not 2.3 million, and the
number of Gaza Arabs is 1.1 million, and not 1.5 million.
A special delegation headed by Rav Gedaliah Olstein, who has
been placed in charge of mikvo'os for the Conference
of European Rabbis (CER), recently returned from a tour of
mikvo'os in Georgia's Jewish communities, based on an
invitation by Rav Avimelech Rosenblatt, the acting Chief
Rabbi of Georgia.
Beitar Illit's new bus company, Illit, recently began
operating 12 of the interurban lines with a total of some 400
runs per day according to arrangements to have women board
and step off the bus using the back door.
Defending The Sanctity Of Life As Defined By
Halochoh By Rabbi N.Z. Grossman
A newly tabled law that proposes recognizing "brain death" as
the death of the person, thus allowing detachment from life
sustaining machinery and the removal of organs, is a worrying
development. It raises the specter of serious breaches of
halochoh in life and death situations, possibly involving
murder.
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