Here's a rather odd story, apparently some Jewish Rabbi/leader has decreed that in the case of an accident, orthodox Jewish males should not receive blood from Jewish women unless it's a matter of life and death and even then the donor needs to be married and not single. Receiving blood from a non-Jew is strictly verboten in all cases and blood may not be taken from males and females at the same time or in a synagogue ... obviously. It's not clear who female orthodox Jews can receive blood from, maybe women don't actually get healthcare in this religious sect, who knows. It all sounds like a lot of making stuff up as you go along in order to exert control over the lives of ordinary people to me.
In other Orthodox Jew related health news today I noticed that some bloke has produced the first ever sex manual for Orthodox Jews, good for him! Although why this is different from the countless other sex manuals already out there is a slightly strange concept to grapple with. What with all the prohibitions this particular group has on food, behaviour, clothing, healthcare and human interaction a less natural state of affairs for a group of people seems hard to imagine, maybe that's the point?
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