We can all benefit from the miraculous gift-of-life afforded by organ donation. Yet many questions exist about Jewish perspectives on organ donation. Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody, the new executive director of the oldest Jewish organization promoting organ donation, will help dispel myths about Jews and organ donation while confronting the real dilemmas posed by organ transplantation.

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Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive director of the Halachic Organ Donor Society and the Jewish Law Live columnist for the Jerusalem Post. He previously served as the co-dean of the Tikvah Online Academy, as a senior instructor (Ra”m) at Yeshivat Hakotel, and as a junior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His writings focus on making Jewish texts accessible to broader audiences while applying them to contemporary social and ethical dilemmas. His work has appeared in Mosaic, Tradition, First Things, The Federalist, Tablet, Tzohar, The Forward, Hakirah, The Torah u-Madda Journal, and other popular publications, and has been cited in Israeli Supreme Court decisions.

His first book, A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates (Maggid), received a 2014 National Jewish Book Award. His next book, Judaism Confronts War: Jewish Military Ethics for the 21st Century, is due out in 2023. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, an MA in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University, and his PhD from Bar Ilan University Law School, where he continues to serve as a postdoctoral fellow.