Second International Retreat on Jewish Medical Ethics
Jerusalem Center for Research: Medicine and Jewish Law
Jerusalem, Israel
August 4 - 11, 1999. Schedule of Academic Activities
Wednesday Aug 4
Evening: Reception at the King Solomon Hotel
8:00 - 10:00 Overview of Jewish Medical Ethics
Dr. L. Zacharowicz, Rabbi Y. Weiner
Thursday Aug 5
Morning session: Organ Transplants from Live Donors
09:00 - 12:00 Chevrutah learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Y. Weiner
13:00 - 14:30 Mincha - lunch
Afternoon session: Surrogate Motherhood
14:30 - 16:30 Chevruta learning
16:30 - 17:30 Shiur: Guest Lecturer
Evening session: Assisted Reproduction Techniques in Halacha (King Solomon Hotel)
20:30 - 22:30 Rabbi Y. Weiner
Friday Aug 6
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (continued)
09:00 - 12:00 Chevruta learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, Ra'avad Beit Din, Eidah Hacharedit
Shabbat Aug 7 (King Solomon Hotel)
Morning free
Afternoon session: The Definition of Brain Death
17:00 - 19:00 Professor Moshe Dickman, Professor Abraham Steinberg
After Shabbat session: Dilemmas in C.C.U.
21:00 - 23:00 Professor M. Gottesman, Rabbi Y. Weiner
Sunday Aug 8
Morning session: Suicide in Halacha
09:00 - 12:00 Chevrutah learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Y. Weiner
13:00 - 14:30 Mincha-lunch
Afternoon session: Surrogate Motherhood (continued)
14:30 - 16:30 Chevrutah learning
16:30 - 17:30 Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Av Beit Din, Jerusalem
Evening session: Brain Death in Halacha (King Solomon Hotel)
20:30 - 22:00 Rabbi S. B. Lazarson
Monday Aug 9
Morning session: Suicide - The Obligation to Protect One's Health
09:00 - 12:00 Chevruta learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Y. Weiner
13:00 - 14:30 Mincha-lunch
Afternoon session: Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat
14:30 - 16:30 Chevruta learning
16:30 - 17:30 Shiur: Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth
Evening: Visit with Rabbi Y. Elyashiv, shlita
Tuesday Aug 10
Morning session: Obligation to Protect One's Health - Smoking
09:00 - 12:00 Chevruta learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Y. Weiner
13:00 - 14:30 Mincha-lunch
Afternoon session: Safek Pikuach Nefesh - Short Term Life
14:30 - 16:30 Chevruta learning
16:30 - 17:30 Shiur: Guest lecturer
Evening session: Non Life-Threatening Situation on Shabbat (King Solomon Hotel)
20:30 - 22:30 Rabbi David Blum
Wednesday Aug 11
Morning session: Smoking (continued)
09:00 - 12:00 Chevruta learning
12:00 - 13:00 Shiur: Rabbi Ettinger, author of Pe'er Tachat Eyfer (a book relating to the prohibition of smoking)
13:00 - 14:30 Mincha-lunch
Afternoon session: Questions and Answers
14:30 - 16:00 Rabbi Y. Weiner
Evening
16:00 - 18:00 Concluding session with families
Where we've been and where we're going in Jewish medical ethics.
Rabbi Y. Weiner
The program is accredited for continuing medical education credits from SUNY Medical School, New York.
Registration for 2000
The next Yarchei Kallah program is scheduled for August 2000. Space is limited.
For additional information concerning this and other Jerusalem Center programs, please contact us.
