Join us from July 31 - August 7, 2002 in Jerusalem in a stimulating Yeshiva environment of chevruta (partner) learning and shiurim (lectures). YK2002 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, 2000, and 2001, 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:
The premature baby: Shabbat and heroic intervention
Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Probable threat to life in the future)
Animal experimentation
Color change as a medical indicator on Shabbat
Open sessions for questions and answers

Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
Organ transplants from live donors
Brain death
Smoking and self-abuse
Assisted reproduction technology (ART)
End of life issues

The tentative list of rabbinical lecturers is:
Chief Rabbi Mordechai Elyahu
Chief Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau
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
Participants may be eligible to receive up to 50 hours of Category I continuing medical education (CME) credits from S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center. For certificate of proof from the CME office, an additional $25 charge 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