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Washington Heights Rabbi Donates Kidney To Stranger: Report
"Someone is truly benefitting from this, so that's what's driving me," Rabbi Avrohom (Alan) Hoffman told the Daily News.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A rabbi at Washington Heights' Congregation Shaare Hatikvah — located on West 179th Street between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue — donated one of his kidneys Tuesday to a complete stranger, according to a report.
Rabbi Avrohom Hoffman — a father to nine children and grandfather to 25 — went under the knife to give his kidney to a 62-year-old woman suffering from polycystic kidney disease, the Daily News reported. The disease, which currently has no cure, is an inherited disorder which causes clusters of cysts to develop on the kidneys, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The rabbi met the woman who would receive his kidney on Monday, the Daily News reported.
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“It brought a lot of joy to myself. I could put a face to it,” Hoffman told the Daily News. “Someone is truly benefitting from this, so that’s what’s driving me.”
Read the full Daily News report here.
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