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him the contents of two closets.
He dragged the woman up from
the floor by her hair and pulled
her down the hallway to the clos-
ets.
"I told them I would give them
the money we had," the grand-
mother said.
She told him the money was in
the kitchen and retrieved a cup
containing less than $100 in coins
and dollars, police said. The sec-
ond intruder quickly left the
house, dropping dollars along the
way. "He didn't stop to pick any
of it up," Scott said.
Scott could hear the gunman
also turn and start to leave. The
man stopped, turned back toward
the family and fired one shot from
the pistol into Scott's back.
"I heard the shell case hit the
floor," he said, "but I didn't feel
anything."
"I didn't know I had been shot
until I saw the blood and my
grandfather pressed a rag into
my back," Scott said.
He was taken to Providence
Hospital by ambulance. Doctors

told him the bullet chipped his
left shoulder blade, narrowly
missing his heart. The bullet was
left in his body but he is expect-
ed to recover fully.
West Bloomfield Township po-
lice have no suspects in the case.
Detective Lt. Carl Fuhs said they
believe it was a case of mistaken
identity.
"We don't know what they
were doing there," he said.
Police believe the gunman was
black, 18-20 years of age, 5'10"
and about 145 pounds. He was
wearing a black hooded sweat-
shirt or coat with "Fila" printed
on the front and black Fila com-
bat boots.
The other man is believed to
be white, 18-20 years of age, 5'10"
and about 175 pounds. He has
short, medium blond hair and
was wearing a medium-length
brown leather jacket.
Anyone with information
about the case can call the West
Bloomfield Township Police De-
partment at (810) 682-9200.

Movements Converge
On Organ Donation

D

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

avid Techner has faced the
misconceptions before.
As funeral director for
Ira Kaufman Chapel in
Southfield, he has heard hospi-
tal representatives fail to request
that a family donate their loved
one's organs.
In one case, a family buried a
child who was involved in a car
accident. The child had lingered
in the hospital for days before fi-
nally dying of injuries sustained
in the wreck.
It wasn't until a month after
the accident that the family
beamed the child could have been
an organ donor; the family, how-
ever, was never approached
while the child was hospitalized.
They called the hospital to ask
why.
"(The hospital staff) said, We
were told that you were Jews and
we were told you don't even
broach the subject with Jews,"
Mr. Techner said.
"The young person was au-
topsied and yet (the hospital)
didn't even think twice about
that," he said.
But the issue of organ dona-
tion and transplantation still is
a gray area as far as Jewish law
and the various movements of
Judaism are concerned.
And the issue has again be-
come a topic of debate after re-
cent media reports about two
local Jewish families.
The family of 16-year-old Dani
Brenner donated her organs fol-

lowing her death from injuries
sustained in a car accident; the
family of Erik Morganroth ap-
pealed to the community for a
heart donation after their son
contracted a virus that disabled
his heart.
For nearly all Jewish move-
ments, the issue of organ trans-
plantation (such as a kidney)
from a living human to another
living human to save a life is ac-
ceptable and considered a meri-
torious act. According to Jewish
law, any act to save a human life
without ending one's own is a
blessing.

Position papers will
be released soon.

"I think that organ donation
for transplantation is permissi-
ble and considered a mitzvah in
the sense of a blessing," said Rab-
bi Joel Roth, a former Detroiter
and member of the Conservative
movement's Committee on Jew-
ish Law and Standards. "It is
permissible but it is never
mandatory."
According to Gift of Life, a non-
profit organ procurement agency,
organs are taken from the bod-
ies of donors after brain death
has been ascertained. The organs
must match the recipient's blood

