you could help save my friend’s life

I’ve got a friend at shul.

He’s a lovely guy, he’s got a lovely family, and he’s got leukemia.

A bone marrow transplant could save his life. But so far, no-one on the bone marrow registers is a match for him.

Registering is a matter of a cheek swab. Actual donating, should you be a match, isn’t quite as simple (in a nutshell, this is why one isn’t halakhically obligated to register for these things), but…but you save someone’s life.

Information for people in all locations is at http://www.mattfenstercircle.org/

Information for people in New York, especially if you are going to the Salute to Israel Parade in New York City on Sunday, May 23, under the cut…

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theorising ahead of one's data

Are there wolves in New York? we wondered.

Wikipedia says there have been sightings of wolves in the "outskirts of large cities in Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin."

No data given for New York.

In my opinion, this lack of data proves that there are MORE wolves in NYC than in Minnesota etc. There, there were reported sightings, so the wolves left some people alive. Here, in NYC, there are no reported sightings, so it must be that all the people got eaten by the wolves.

It is, therefore, reasonable to conclude more numerous, or at any rate more thorough, wolves in the New York City area than in, for example, Wisconsin.