tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522477536280422312024-03-08T15:50:57.532-08:00Rabbinic Statement Regarding Organ Donation and Brain DeathOrgan Donation Statementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03895311802298900535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452247753628042231.post-66439994185665042722011-01-07T07:10:00.000-08:002011-01-24T09:58:10.399-08:00Rabbinic Statement Regarding Organ Donation<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We, the undersigned Orthodox rabbis and <em>rashei yeshiva</em> affirm the following principles with regard to organ donation and brain stem death:<br />
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First and foremost, the halakhic definition of death is a long-standing debate amongst <em>gedolei haposkim</em>, and it should not be forgotten that, among others in the U.S. and Israel, the former Chief Rabbis of Israel, R. Avraham Shapira and R. Mordechai Eliyahu, <em>zikhronam li’vracha</em>, <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">and, <em>yibadel li’chayim</em>, Rav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, the <em>av beis din</em> of the Beit Din of America, are </span>proponents of the position that brain stem death constitutes the halakhic definition of death.<br />
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Both positions, that brain stem death constitutes death, and that only cardiac death can define death, are halakhically viable. This remains so even in light of the findings of the President’s Council on Bioethics in 2008.<br />
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With regard to this long-standing debate, and its critical implications for organ donation, we affirm our position that:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">1. Brain stem death is a halakhically operational definition of death. As such, organs may be removed for transplantation under strict halakhic supervision and guidance.<br />
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2. In light of the serious moral issues and profound lifesaving potential presented by the possibility of organ donation, we strongly recommend that rabbis who are rendering decisions for their laity on this matter demonstrate a strong predisposition to accept the halakhic view of the <em>gedolei haposkim</em> who define the moment of halakhic death to be that of brain stem death, or that they refer their laity to rabbis who do so. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3. Even as we adopt the brain stem definition of death, we emphasize that the greatest of care is needed in applying this definition in practice, and that safeguards are necessary to insure the organ removal is done in accordance with halakhic principles. Each person should consult with his or her rabbi and appropriate medical professionals to understand how this determination of death is made, and how to ensure that the appropriate procedures will be in place. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">4. Rabbis and laity who follow the position that brain stem death is not considered to be halakhic death should be aware that it is medically possible to donate certain body parts after cardiac death and that it is a mitzvah to do so. Thus,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><blockquote>a. It is both halakhically permissible and desirable and ethically mandated for every Jew to be an organ donor consistent with his or her definition of halakhic death. </blockquote><blockquote>b. Rabbis and community leaders must do all in their power to communicate this responsibility to the community, and to encourage all Jews to sign organ donor cards, in line with their halakhic definition of death.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
5. To adopt a restrictive position regarding donating organs and a permissive position regarding receiving organs is morally untenable. Such an approach is also highly damaging to the State of Israel, both internally and in regards to its relationship with the larger world, and to the Jewish People as a whole. This approach must thus be unequivocally rejected by Jews at the individual and the communal level.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Signed:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Efrat</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Petach Tikva</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Benny Lau, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Jerusalem</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yoel Bin Nun, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi David Bigman, Ma’ale Gilboa, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yehudah Gilad, Ma’ale Gilboa, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Binyamin Walfish, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Jerusalem</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Dr. Avraham Walfish, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Herzl Hefter, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Jerusalem</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">NewYork</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yosef Adler, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Teaneck</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Dov Linzer</personname>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Avi Weiss, Hebrew Institute of <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, Riverdale, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Moshe Shamah, Sephardic Institute, Brooklyn, NY<br />
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Rabbi Barry Gelman, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Houston</city>, <state w:st="on">TX</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Asher Lopatin, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Chicago</city>, <state w:st="on">IL</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Los Angeles</city>, <state w:st="on">CA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Newton</city>, <state w:st="on">MA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Chaim Marder, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">White Plains</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yaakov Love, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Passaic</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Nati Helfgot, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Teaneck</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Ysoscher Katz</city>, <city w:st="on">New York</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Marc Angel, <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals,</span> <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">New York</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yossi Pollak, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Westport</city>, <state w:st="on">CT</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Zev Farber</personname>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Atlanta</city>, <state w:st="on">GA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Alan Yuter, Bnai <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Baltimore</city>, <state w:st="on">MD</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Hayyim Angel, Congregation Shearith <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">New York</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Maurice Appelbaum, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Brooklyn</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Nissan Antine</personname>, Congregation Beth Sholom, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Potomac</city>, <state w:st="on">MD</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Princeton</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Zachary Truboff, Cedar Road Synagogue, Cleveland, OH<street w:st="on"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Michael Chernick, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Teaneck</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi David Kalb, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Yair Silverman , Rabbi Moed, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Zichron Yaackov</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Aryeh A. Leifert, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Mazkeret Batya</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Los Angeles</city>, <state w:st="on">CA</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yonah S. Berman, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Montreal</city>, <state w:st="on">CA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Ari Segal, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Houston</city>, <state w:st="on">TX</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Daniel Braune Friedman, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Oxford</city>, <country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Adam Mintz, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">New York</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, Rosh Kollel Yeshivat Shvilei Hatorah, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Alon Shevut</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Yonatan</personname> Cohen, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Berkeley</city>, <state w:st="on">CA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Joel Tessler, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Potomac</city>, <state w:st="on">MD</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Ben Greenberg, Jewish Chaplain, <placename w:st="on">Harvard</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Cambridge</city>, <state w:st="on">MA</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Ari Perl, Congregation Shaare Tefilla, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Dallas</city>, <state w:st="on">TX</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> Akiva Herzfeld, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Portland</city>, <state w:st="on">ME</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Yisroel Porath, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Jerusalem</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Israel</country-region></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro, Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Baltimore</city>, <state w:st="on">MD</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Michael Whitman, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Hampstead</city>, <state w:st="on">Quebec</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Eytan Yammer, Knesseth <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Israel</place></country-region> Congregation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Steven Exler</personname>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Riverdale</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Daniel Smokler, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">New York</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Mordechai Rackover, <placename w:st="on">Brown</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Providence</city>, <state w:st="on">RI</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><personname w:st="on"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi <personname w:st="on">Josh Feigelson</personname></span></personname><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Evanston</city>, <state w:st="on">IL</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rabbi Akiva Dovid Weiss, <placename w:st="on">Rutgers</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype>, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Rutgers</city>, <state w:st="on">NJ</state></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Jason Herman, West Side Jewish Center, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">NewYork</city>, <state w:st="on">NY</state></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Sorin Rosen, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Bucharest</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Romania</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Ronen Newirth, Overseas Director - Tzohar, Israel</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;">Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tifereth Beth David <city u2:st="on"><place u2:st="on">Jerusalem, Cote St. Luc, Quebec</place></city></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><city u2:st="on"><place u2:st="on">Rabbi Adam Scheier, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Westmount, Quebec</place></city></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><city u2:st="on"><place u2:st="on">Rabbi Max Davis, Springfield, MA</place></city></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
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Rabbi Jonathan Duker, Beit Shemesh, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Yehudah Sarna, New York, NY<br />
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Rabbi Bob Carroll, Jerusalem, Israel</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><br />
Rabbi Uri Topolosky, Congregation Beth Israel, New Orleans, LA<br />
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt, Congregation Sherith Israel, Nashville, TN<br />
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Rabbi Yisrael Hollender, Riverdale, NY<br />
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Rabbi Marc Gitler, Denver, CO<br />
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Rabbi Dov Zelden, Chicago, IL<br />
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Rabbi Reuben J. Poupko, Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation, Montreal, Quebec<br />
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Rabbi Saul Strosberg, Sherith Israel, Nashville, TN<br />
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Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, Executive Director, Jewish Studies Initiative of North Texas, Dallas, TX<br />
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Rabbi Aaron Frank, Principal, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Baltimore, MD<br />
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Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz, OU Seif JLIC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA<br />
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Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Los Angeles, CA<br />
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Rabbi Menashe East, Randolph, NJ<br />
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Rabbi Seth Braunstein, Boston, MA<br />
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Rabbi Dr. Seth (Avi) Kadish, University of Haifa, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Aaron Levy, Makom, Toronto, ON, Canada<br />
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Rabbi Mitchell S Ackerson, Chaplain (Colonel) US Army; Director Pastoral Care, Lifebridge Health System, Baltimore, MD<br />
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Rabbi Benjamin Berger, Senior Jewish Educator, Ohio State University Hillel, Columbus, OH<br />
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Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg, Beth Tfiloh Congregation, Baltimore, MD<br />
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Rabbi Chai Posner, Beth Tfiloh Congregation, Baltimore, MD<br />
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Rabbi Zvi Leshem, Kehillat Shirat Shlomo, Efrat, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz, Yeshivat Sulam Yaakov, Jerusalem, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Drew Kaplan, Long Beach, CA<br />
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Rabbi Hyim Shafner, Bais Abraham Congregation, St Louis, MO<br />
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Rabbi Mayer Lichtenstein, Yeshivat Otniel, Israel<br />
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Rabbi David Kasher, Oakland, CA<br />
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Rabbi Shimshon Nadel, Yeshivat Torat HaAretz, Har Nof Community Kollel, Jerusalem, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Yitzchok Adler, Beth David Synagogue, West Hartford, CT<br />
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Rabbi Elie Weinstock, New York, NY<br />
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Rabbi Avi Finegold, Chicago, IL<br />
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Rabbi Benji Shiller, Riverdale, NY<br />
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Rabbi Yossi Newfield, Brooklyn, NY<br />
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Rabbi Howard S. Joseph, Montreal, Canada<br />
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Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue, Washington, D.C.<br />
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Rabbi Howard Wolk, Dallas, TX<br />
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Rabbi Tully Harcsztark, Teaneck, NY<br />
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Rabbi Charles Sheer, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY<br />
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Rabbi Murray Schaum, Riverdale, NY<br />
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Rabbi Etan Mintz, Charlottesville, VA<br />
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Rabbi Daniel Reifman, Yad Binyamin, Israel<br />
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Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow, White Plains, NY<br />
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Rabbi Eugene Korn, Bergenfield, NJ<br />
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Rabbi Kenneth Birnbaum, New York, NY<br />
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