Wednesday Aug 4

 
Thursday Aug 5
Morning session:

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.