The Eleventh Annual Yarchei Kallah

Eleventh International Retreat on Jewish Medical Ethics

August 20 – 26, 2008
Jerusalem Center for Research: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Jerusalem, Israel

Tentative Schedule

Wednesday, Aug 20

9:00 - 10:00     Rav Yitzchak Silberstein, topic to be announced
10:00 - 11:00     Rav Yaakov Weiner
Introduction to: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
11:00 - 13:00     Chevruta learning: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
13:00 - 14:30     Lunch and Mincha
14:30 - 17:00     Chevruta learning: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
20:30 - 22:00*    Rav Yaakov Weiner, Moment of death

Thursday, Aug 21

9:00 - 12:00     Chevruta learning: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
12:00 - 13:00      Rav Nechemia Zalman Goldberg
Physician financial conduct and remuneration
13:00 - 14:30      Lunch and Mincha
14:30 - 16:00      Chevruta learning: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
16:00 - 17:00      Rav Yitzchak Darzi, Shabbat and medicine
20:30 - 22:00*     Rav David Blume, Shabbat and medicine

Friday, Aug 22

9:00 - 11:00     Chevruta learning: Physician financial conduct and remuneration
11:00 - 13:00    Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Q&A

Shabbat, Aug 23

17:30 - 19:00*    Rav Yaakov Weiner, Alternative medicine
19:00     Mincha, Seudah shlishit, Maariv, Havdala
21:00 - 22:00     Rav Yaakov Weiner, Q&A

* Will take place in Rav Weiner's home

Sunday, Aug 24

9:00 - 10:00     Rav Yaakov Weiner
Introduction: Physician accountability, liability and malpractice
10:00 - 12:00     Chevruta learning: Physician accountability, liability and malpractice
12:00 - 13:00     Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth, Shabbat and medicine
13:00 - 14:30     Lunch and Mincha
14:30 - 16:00     Dr. Leon Zacharowicz - The Sam Golubchik Memorial lecture
Sanctity of life vs. quality of life
20:30 - 22:00*    Rav David Blume, Shabbat and medicine

Monday, Aug 25

9:00 - 12:00     Chevruta earning: Physician accountability, liability and malpractice
12:00 - 13:00      Rav Dovid Morgenstern,
Ministry of Health's decision to connect ventilators to timers
13:00 - 14:30      Lunch and Mincha
14:30 - 16:00      Chevruta earning: Physician accountability, liability and malpractice
16:00 - 17:00      Rav Eliezer Rot, Physician accountability, liability and malpractice
20:30 - 22:00*     Rav Yaakov Weiner, Shabbat and medicine

Tuesday, Aug, 26

9:00 - 10:00     Rav Yaakov Weiner
Introduction: R&R - Physician availability
10:00 - 13:00    Chevruta: R&R - Physician availability
13:00 - 14:30    Lunch and Mincha
14:30 - 16:00    Rav Yisroel Ganz, R&R - Physician availability
16:00 - 17:00    Rav Yaakov Weiner, Siyum

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