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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">New York man pleads guilty to selling Israeli human
organs</FONT></FONT></FONT></H1>
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face=Verdana><FONT color=#353434><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Levy Izhak
Rosenbaum tells federal court that he brokered three illegal kidney transplants
for New Jersey-based customers in exchange for payments of $120,000 or
more.</FONT></FONT></FONT></H2>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#353434><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.8pt">His attorneys, Ronald Kleinberg and Richard Finkel,
said in a statement that their client had performed a life-saving service for
desperately ill people who had been languishing on official transplant waiting
lists.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT
color=#353434 face=Verdana>....</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9.8pt">"In fact, because of the transplants and for the first
time in many years, the recipients are no longer burdened by the medical and
substantial health dangers associated with dialysis and kidney
failure."</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#353434><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 9.8pt">The lawyers added that Rosenbaum had never solicited
clients, but that recipients had sought him out, and that the donors he arranged
to give up kidneys were fully aware of what they were doing. The money involved,
they argued, was for expenses associated with the procedures, which they claim
were performed in prestigious American hospitals by experienced surgeons and
transplant experts.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#353434 face=Verdana>My
comments:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span><FONT color=#353434 face=Verdana>I would ask whether
there is any issur here al pi halacha?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span>I understand that the modern western world perceives this
as a major crime of the rich preying on the poor for the sale of bodily parts,
the powerful preying on the weak and powerless, and the greed of the broker who
organizes the deal. The harvesting of the organ is often pictured as occurring
in unsanitary, makeshift ORs endangering the poor donor whose consent is
sometimes questionable, uninformed or totally lacking.</SPAN></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span>If the reality of these cases is not as the popular media
chooses to portray, and are safe, sanitary and with full consent of the donor,
would halacha allow such a procedure (dina demalchusa excepted [if it applies
here]}. Presumably, you are saving someone’s life, providing significant funds
to a poor person who desperately needs it, probably jumping a Jew in the waiting
line ahead of many non-Jews to save his life first ( this may also include
jumping him ahead of other Jews as well? Is this a problem?). The main down side
I can see under these assumed circumstances is whether one is permitted to risk
one’s life to save another (one might consider the imminence of the risk to life
and in fact if there is any at all in some cases) which is an issue well
elaborated upon in the halachic literature. What would your attitude be towards
this frum Brooklyn man who did this knowing he was involved in actions deemed
illegal by the State. (I am of course giving him the benefit of the doubt that
his lawyer’s defenses (rationales – as they are probably not valid legal
defenses) are in fact true and that greed was not the motivator until shown
otherwise – but even if greed was the motivator, does that change
anything?).</SPAN></DIV>
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