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"The Tani Way" Campaign This 5 year campaign was made possible by Keren Keshet (Rainbow Fund) which provided $375,000 to the Israel Transplant Authority in memory of Tani. Its goal is to raise awareness in Israel and abroad of the importance of organ donation. Tani's name means "gift"; he gave the gift of life to four others and the gift of sight to two.
The President's House Reception for Donor Families
A reception was held honoring the participant families of those who gave and received the gift of life at the President's house in July, 2002. Jerry Goodman was chosen to represent the donor families.
Jerry's Speech
Evenings dedicated to Organ Donor Awareness in Halifax, NovaScotia and Jerusalem, for Tani's birthday, Nov. 20th, 2003.
Yael Goodman held an evening to honor her youngest brother Tani by holding an evening of awareness of the importance of organ donation. This event was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and included discussion about the need for more awareness of this difficult problem.
Yael and the Conter family honored both Tani and Yoni Jessner, another remarkable young man whose family also donated his organs to save lives.
Yael's remarks
An evening on organ donor awareness was held at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem on Nov. 20, 2002, Tani's 18th birthday. Robby Berman, Chairman of HODS, Halachic Organ Donor Society of the United States spoke about the issues involved in organ donation. Dvorah Goodman, Tani Goodman's oldest sister and Dvorah Lilian, niece of Yael Lilian, one of Tani's recipients, spoke about the meaning of organ donation and its impact on the lives of both families.
Halachic Organ Donor Society (HODS) of America
Jerry talking in 2005
www.hods.org for 2010 video clip of Goodman Family
August 2003 www.hods.org/English/videos/video_tanigoodman.shtml click on the Goodman story
The Officer who signs up organ donors Ynet.co.il
"Giving
life to others: Tani's gift" Medbroadcast.com
"Tani
Goodman, Z'L", Bronfman Newsletter, Spring, 2002
"Accident Victim's Organs
Saves Four", Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2002
"The
Role of Ritual" My Jewish Learning.com-Texts: by Rabbi
Shimon Felix
"The
Last Mitzvah of Your Life" by Robby Berman, Jerusalem Post,
March 24, 2002
Video
of the Goodman's meeting Moshiko, August, 2003
"Organ
Donation is 'a big mitzvah' " by Adam Segal, Canadian Jewish
News September 2005
"HOD Society - Organ
Donors"
"Israel
Day Parade"
"The
Answer My Friend" by Miriam Lock, Life In Israel, February,
2002
"Marathon Man Runs for His
Life--Its Never Too Late to Turn Things Around" Jerusalem
Post August 3, 2005
http://www.ynet.co.il/Ext/App/TalkBack/CdaViewOpenTalkBack/1,11382,L-3501068-5,00.html