Case Pits Modern Medicine Against Traditional Jewish Law

In a heart-wrenching debate pitting modern medicine against traditional Jewish law, a judge will hear arguments next week on whether a hospital can proceed with plans to end life support for a brain-dead 12-year-old boy, even though his Orthodox Jewish parents believe that life only ends when the heart and lungs cease to function. Motl Brody, whose family lives in a predominately Hasidic community in Brooklyn, N.Y., has been a patient at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,... Full Story