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kidney donation

Danny Levin watches his granddaughter’s soccer game at Paul Goode Field in San Francisco in spring 2025. (Rachel Levin)
Posted inFirst Person

Got an extra kidney? My dad needs one.

Rachel Levin (Courtesy) by Rachel Levin October 15, 2025October 16, 2025

I can’t believe I’m writing this. It feels fake. Like I’m in some sad Debra Winger movie or Christmas special, except we’re Jewish and it’s real. And although he is […]

Part of a kidney dialysis machine in operation. (Photo/U.S. National Archives and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)
Posted inBay Area

‘No greater mitzvah’: Bay Area man seeks kidney donor

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 12, 2022
The surgical room in Israel where one of the kidney transplants took place. (Photo/Courtesy Itai Ashlagi via Stanford Engineering Magazine)
Posted inNews

Historic kidney exchange between Israel and UAE started at Stanford

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 21, 2021October 21, 2021
Posted inUncategorized, First Person

Giving a kidney not as hard as it seems, and fulfills the ultimate commandment

by J. Correspondent September 18, 2009December 31, 2019

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