Scholar in Residence

My name is Robert Berman and I am the founder and director of the Halachic Organ Donor Society. I have delivered more than 850 lectures about organ donation and brain death halacha in America, Europe and Israel. Over the weekend, I usually deliver 3 lectures on different angles of organ donation (you can see them below). Please contact me if your shul is interested in having me as scholar in residence.

1. Friday Night: Paying for Organs is Illegal – Is it Immoral? A Fun Audience Debate.

2. Shabbat Morning: Organ Donation in Halacha and what is going on in Israel.

3. Mincha-Maariv: When is the moment of death? The Brain Death Controversy.

Over the last 18 years, the Halachic Organ Donor Society has:

• saved hundreds of lives by facilitating organ transplants that were not going to happen.
• performed a kiddush Hashem by changing people’s perception about Jews vis a vis organ donation (see CNN, WABC TV, The NY Times).
• delivered more than 850 lectures educating more than 40,000 people.
• recruited more than 340 Rabbis to carry organ donor cards.
• created dozens of Rabbinic video-testimonials in support of organ donation.
• made available over 400 articles on organ donation and Jewish law.
• placed over 70 editorials, articles, and letters-to-the-editor.
• had an impact half way around the world (see Australian Jewish News).