All four branches of Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist) support and encourage donation.

In the Summer/Fall 2002 issue of On the Beat, a publication of the New York Organ Donor Network, Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Tendler, Chairman of the Biology Department of Yeshiva University in New York City and chairman of the Bioethics Commission of the Rabbinical Council of America, wrote favorably about organ donation, citing the imperative from Deuteronomy 30:19: "You shall choose life." Click here for full article.

Halachic Organ Donor Society
The Halachic Organ Donor Society (HOD Society) disseminates information regarding Halachic issues and Rabbinic opinions concerning organ donation. The HOD Society offers card carrying membership in a society that allows people to donate organs in accordance with their particular Halachic belief. HOD Society's founder and director is Robert Berman. Mr. Berman has been a social activist for many Jewish causes, and was previously a freelance journalist and photojournalist, published in New York Magazine, the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Week, Moment Magazine, and Jerusalem Report. HOD Society contact information: 49 West 45th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10036; phone: 212-213-5087; fax: 212-213-9451; medical emergency: 646-645-4637 or 1-877-700-HODS. http://www.hods.org

Order free copies of the Conservative Judaism Brochure on Organ and Tissue Donation
This brochure was a project of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It was developed by the committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly. To order the brochure, please contact Karen Cummings: kcumming@nyodn.org or call her at 646-291-4454.

Order free copies of the Reform Judaism Brochure on Organ and Tissue Donation
This brochure was published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Department of Jewish Family Concerns, co-sponsored by Women of Reform Judaism. To order the brochure, please contact Karen Cummings: kcumming@nyodn.org or call her at 646-291-4454.

Read a Sermon by Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, Associate Rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, a Reform Congregation in Manhattan, for National Donor Sabbath in November 2006.
Rabbi Grushcow is a Rhodes Scholar and the author of Writing the Wayward Wife: Rabbinic Interpretations of Sotah. Rabbi Grushcow answers this question: “What stops us from being donors?”