Kehila Cord Blood Transplants
DESCRIPTION: Kehila Cord (no website) is sponsored by Dor Yeshorim and serves the Chasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn. This is a community which has very little contact with the outside world; the program is promoted by word-of-mouth. Dor Yeshorim was founded in the 1980’s by Rabbi Josef Ekstein to offer genetic testing prior to arranged marriages, in an effort to prevent the spread of fatal hereditary diseases. Rabbi Ekstein lost four of his own children to Tay-Sachs disease. In 2005, Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz (718-218-8180) launched a drive in community synagogues to encourage parents to donate Cord Blood. The Cord Blood is processed and stored at Community Blood Services (part of the NMDP bank network) in Paramus, NJ. The cost of the program is borne by both the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program and Kehila Cord. For more information, contact Kehila Cord at 718-384-2332 (office: 429 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 1121).
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: Brooklyn, NY
INTERNET: [no website]
PHONE: 718-384-2332
STORAGE: Community Blood Services, Paramus, NJ
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
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