Join us from August 23 - August 30, 2005 in Jerusalem in a stimulating Yeshiva environment of chevruta (partner) learning and shiurim (lectures). YK2005 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 - 2004 (click here to see highlights), a distinguished and highly learned panel of rabbinical authorities will deliver in-depth analyses of current issues in Jewish medical ethics.

The main planned topics include:
Human dignity in Halacha
Returning from an emergency call on Shabbat
Shabbat and medical care

Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat
determining the instant of death
Assisted reproduction technology (ART)
Organ Transplants
Stem cell research
Research on fetal cells

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 Asher Weiss
Rav Dovid Morganstern
Rav Yaakov Weiner
Rav Moshe Halberstam

Registration fees: $1000.00
Participants may be eligible to receive up to 50 hours of Category I continuing medical education (CME) credits. 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