Join us from August 1 - 8, 2001 in Jerusalem in a stimulating Yeshiva environment of chevruta (partner) learning and shiurim (lectures). YK2001 will take place in the comfortably air-conditioned Beit Midrash of Boys Town in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Experienced and enthusiastic talmidei chachamim will be paired with the participants for the entire week. And as in the previous Yarchei Kallah of 1998, 1999 and 2000, a distinguished and highly learned rostrum of rabbinical authorities will deliver in-depth analyses of current issues in Jewish medical ethics.

The main planned topics include:
A physician returning home on Shabbat after a Pikuach Nefesh call
Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Intrusion into the rights of others)
The gosses in Halachah
Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat
Open sessions for questions and answers

Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
Organ transplants from live donors
Brain death
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Cloning
Male infertility
The geriatric and demented patient

The tentative list of rabbinical lecturers is:
Chief Rabbi Mordechai Elyahu
Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth
Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg
Rav Yitschok Silberstein
Rav Moshe Sternbuch
Rav Simcha Bunim Lazarson
Rav Dovid Morganstern
Rav Yaakov Weiner

The tentative list of medical lecturers is:
Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Dr. Avraham Avraham
Prof. Meyer Gottesman
Prof. Moshe Dickman
Prof. Arnold Rosen
Dr. Yigal Gat

Registration fees:
$1000.00 which includes 50 Category 1 CME credits. For certificate of proof from the CME office, an additional charge of $25.00 is required.

Previous years' credits have been awarded through Einstein Medical School and SUNY Medical School, New York

For further information, please contact us at: Telefax:972-2-538-3558, Email: info@j-c-r.org