HaaretzRabbi Ovadia Yosef: Sectorial party leader or a social revolutionary?Haaretz… Jews as full-fledged Jews, his granting of official rabbinically sanctioned widowhood to women whose husbands were killed in the Yom Kippur War but whose status as w…
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardi chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader, dies at 93
JNS.org … were unknown—to remarry, in a decree known as “the release of agunot”; declaring a collective recognition of the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews, and in more recent years, ordering the Shas party to vote in favor of a law recognizing brain death as … |
Haaretz1920-2013 || Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, kingmaker of Israeli politics, dies at 93HaaretzFor example, he balked at issuing his own opinion regarding the affair when conversions to Judaism were ruled invalid by the great rabbinical court, and also when h…
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies at 93
Israel Hayom … in a decree known as “the release of agunot”; declaring a collective recognition of the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews, and in more recent years, ordering the Shas political party to vote in favor of a law recognizing brain death as death for legal … |
Gift from the Heart: Becoming an Organ DonorThe Hilltop OnlineBack here in the States, the doctor said that the number of people who suffer brain death has gone down in recent years as people have adopted safer practices, such as wearing helmets and se…
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Physician urges caution on organ donation
St.Louis Review Byrne said he has researched brain death and believes that it is not true death. The first set of criteria for brain death came in 1968 and has been followed by multiple sets, each less strict than the previous one, he said. “A person can be declared … |
Columnist: Government Should Take Organs for Donation, No Opt-Out AllowedLifeNews.comA patient has to have suffered brain death where their brain is no longer functioning but, with the help of a ventilator to keep oxygen flowing, their heart is still p…
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Bystander CPR knowledge saves lives
Health24.com “If no one performs lifesaving measures on a victim, brain death will begin about four to six minutes after breathing ceases and oxygen stops circulating,” he said. “CPR done immediately and effectively can double the victim’s chance of survival.” Each … |
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What makes us alive? Moreover, what makes us dead?
New Statesman Even what has been termed “brain death” is not enough. A lack of electrical activity inside your skull is not a sign that your brain cells are all dead. It takes up to eight hours to start dying and you can lose a lot of them before significant damage … |
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Better-Educated Public May Bring More Lifesaving CPR, Study Shows
U.S. News & World Report “If no one performs lifesaving measures on a victim, brain death will begin about four to six minutes after breathing ceases and oxygen stops circulating,” he said. “CPR done immediately and effectively can double the victim’s chance of survival.” Each … |