August 18 - 24, 1998
First Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Halacha and Medicine, Q & A (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
• The Moment of Death (Rav Simcha Bumin Lazarson)
• Treatment of the Terminally Ill (Rav Shmuel Jacobovitz)
• Dilemnas in Cardiac ICU (Prof. Meyer Gottesman)
• Brain Death (Prof. Moshe Dickman)

August 4 - 11, 1999
Second Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
King Solomon Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Overview of Jewish Medical Ethics (Dr. L. Zacharowicz, Rav Y. Weiner)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Y. Weiner and Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
• Assisted Reproduction Techniques in Halacha (Rav Y. Weiner)
• The Definition of Brain Death (Professor Moshe Dickman, Professor Abraham Steinberg)
• Dilemmas in C.C.U. (Professor M. Gottesman, Rav Y. Weiner)
• Suicide in Halacha (Rav Y. Weiner)
• Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
• Brain Death in Halacha (Rav S. B. Lazarson)
• Suicide - The Obligation to Protect One's Health (Rav Y. Weiner)
• Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Obligation to Protect One's Health - Smoking (Rav Y. Weiner)
• Non Life-Threatening Situation on Shabbat (Rav David Blum)
• Smoking (Rav Ettinger)
• Where we've been and where we're going in Jewish medical ethics. (Rav Y. Weiner)

August 16 - 23, 2000
Third Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Abortions (Dr. Yigal Gat)
• Multi-fetal reduction (Dr. Yigal Gat)
• Pikuach nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
• Medical treatment (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Brain death (Rav Simcha Bumin Lazarson)
• Smoking and self abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Surrogate motherhood (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
• Assisted reproduction technology (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

August 1 - 8, 2001
Fourth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• A physician returning home on Shabbat after a Pikuach Nefesh call (Rav Dovid Blum)
• Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Intrusion into the rights of others) (Rav Yitzchak Solberstein)
• The gosses in Halachah (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
• Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Brain death (Prof. Avraham Steinberg)
• Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (Dr. Yoram Chovav)
• Cloning (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Male infertility (Dr. Yigal Gat)
• The geriatric and demented patient (Dr. Menachem Brayer)

July 1 - August 7, 2002
Fifth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• The premature baby: Shabbat and heroic intervention (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Probable threat to life in the future) (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
• Animal experimentation (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Color change as a medical indicator on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Blum)
• Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Brain death (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu)
• Smoking and self-abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The anencephalitic baby (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)

August 20 - 27, 2003
Sixth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Writing on Shabbat for medical purposes when there are and are not conditions of Pikuach Nefesh (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Pru Urvu - The commandment to be fruitful and multiply (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Contraception in the light of Pru Urvu (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
• Brain death (Rav Shmuel Jacobovitz)
• The premature and the anencephalitic baby (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Dr. Yoram Chovav)
• End of life issues (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
• Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Meir Lau)

February 20 - 23, 2003
First American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

• The Future of Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Introduction to The Halachic Status of the Embryo and Fetus in Vivo and in Vitro (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• ART - Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Professor Richard V. Grazi, Rav Tzvi Flaum, Rav Dovid Weinberger, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Belsky)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Hershel Shechter)

January 29 - February 1, 2004
First Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

• Introduction to The Halachic Status of the Embryo and Fetus in Vivo and in Vitro (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Embryo and Fetus in Halachah (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• Sanctity of Life - End of Life Issues (Rav Mordechai Ginsbury, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rav Dr. Akiva Tatz, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Introduction to Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Halachic Perspetives on Altruistic Giving and the Selling of Organs (Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

February 19 - 22, 2004
Second American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

• Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Eye Diseases and Danger to Limbs (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Ophthamological Care on Shabbat: Dilemmas from a Physician's Perspective (Rav Daniel Roth)
• Sanctity of Life (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Rav Dovid Weinberger, Rav Yaakov Weiner, Allen Lempe)
• Introduction to Artificial Insemination (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Shabbat & Medicine (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Eye Diseases and Danger to Limbs on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Belsky)
• Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Artificial Insemination and Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Mordechai Willig)

May 13 - 16, 2004
Third American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Congregation Beth Torah, 1061 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, USA

Highlights:

• Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Introduction to Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Yisrael Belsky)
• Medical Confidentiality (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Hershel Schechter)

August 10 - 17, 2004
Seventh Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Tubal ligation (female sterilization) (Rav Dovid Morgenstein)
• Medical confidentiality (Rav Yisroel Ganz)
• Eating on Yom Kippur - permissible amounts: natural vs. artificial feeding (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Tested, experimental and metaphysical medications in Halacha (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
• Returning from an emergency call on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Blum)
• Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
• Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Determining the instant of death (Rav Chanina Rotenberg)
• Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Rav Dovid Blum)
• Organ Transplants (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

December 2 - 5, 2004
First Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological college, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

• Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Rav G. Schaffel)
• Stem Cell research (Rav Chaim Twersky, Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Gedalia Schwartz )
• Shabbat and medicine (Rav Chaim Twersky, Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
• Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
• Overview of Medical Ethics and Halacha (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)

January 20 - 23, 2005
Fourth American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel _Ezras Israel, Potomac and The Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Highlights:

• Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yosef Singer)
• Surgical Procedures, Morbidity and Mortality of Love Donor Organ Donation (Allan D. Kirk MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.S.)
• Entering Risk to Save another Life (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• In Vitro and In Vivo Embryo in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Jewish Philosophy on Stem Cells and Cloning (Rav Aharon Lopiansky)
• Cloning and Stem Cell Research (Rav E. Reingold, Rav Yitzchok Breitowitz, JD)
• Preconception Gender Selection (Rav Barry Freundel)

January 27 - 30, 2005
Second Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London, England

Highlights:

• Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• Returning One's Life and Soul (Rav Harvey Belovski)
• Designer Babies (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Surrogate Motherhood (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• The Obligation to Protect One's Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Dovid Bloom)
• Does my Free Will Affect You? (Rav Akiva Tatz)
• End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Jewish Doctor (Rav Chaim Sarna, Rosh Yeshivat Chevron, Jerusalem)

March 10 - 13, 2005
Fifth American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

• Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• "Be fruitful and multiply"and the Jewish Family (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yisroel Belsky)
• Preconception Gender Selection (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum Rav Yaakov Feitman, Andrew Silverman, MD, Obg, Gyn)
• The Moment of Death (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Hershel Schachter, Leon Zacharowicz, MD)
• Bioethical Dilemmas (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Hershel Schachter, Leon Zacharowicz, MD)

August 23 - 30, 2005
Eighth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Returning from an Emergency Call on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Morgenstern, Rav Simcha Bunim Lazerson)
• The Use of Electricity on Shabbat (Rav Yitzchak Darzi)
• Human Dignity in Halacha (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Use of Fetal Tissue for treating Parkinson and Alzheimer Disease (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Physicians "On call" during Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
• Questions and Answers (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
• Nightly lectures presented on the following topics:
  • Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
  • Determining the instant of death (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
  • Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
  • Organ Transplants (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Dovid Blume)

December 8 - 11, 2005
Second Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

Program chaired by Oscar Novick
• Self abuse and cosmetic surgery (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Elective gastriv surgery (Rav Morgenstern)
• Commercialization of organ donations (Tav Yaakov Weiner)
• Prophylactic surgery based on genetic dispositon (Rav Gedalia Schwartz)
• Substance abuse and overeating (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Smoking (Rav Shmuel Feurst)
• Womwn's program (Rav G. Schaffel and Rav Chaim Twersky)

January 26 - 29, 2006
Third Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

• Entering Situations of Risk to Life and Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• ART & Surrogate Motherhood (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• End of Life Issues (Rav Avraham Friedlander)
• Communicating with Patients and Relatives (Rav Mordechai Ginsbury, Rav Harvey Belovski)
• Smoking in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Treatment of Contagious Disease (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner)

March 2 - 5, 2006
Sixth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Congregation Beth Torah, 1061 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, USA

Highlights:

• Personal Abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Physician Need for Rest vis a vis Patient Demand for Care (Rav Herchel Shachter)
• End of Life Issues (Rav Avraham Friedlander)
• Entering a Situation Hazardous to Life versus a situation hazardous to Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Kashrut of Medicines and Vitamins (Rav Moshe Y. Weiner)
• Smoking in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Elimelech Bluth)
• Personal Obligation to Protect Ones Body and Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

May 25 - 28, 2006
Seventh Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Harav Menachem and Rochel Goldberg Kollel, Agudath Israel of Detroit and
Congregation Agudas Yisroel-Mogen Avraham, Oak Park/Southfield, Michigan

Highlights:

• Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Halachic Basis for not Harming Oneself (Rav Asher Eisenberger)
• Cosmetic, bariatric and refractive surgery (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Gosses and DNR (Rav Yehuda Bakst)
• Palliative Care (Rav Shmuel Irons)
• Dilemmas of Limited Resources (Rav Shraga Rothbart, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Contemporary Medical Cases in Israel (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Role of the Rav in Medical Questions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• How a Gadol Decided a Complex Medical Question (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Jewish Philosophy of Stem Cell Research and Gene Therapy (Rav Shmuel Irons)
• Gene Therapy (Rav Yissachar Wolf)
• Genetics: Can We Alter What our Parents and Hashem Gave us? (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

April 26 - 29, 2007
Third Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

• Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Infectious Diseases (Rav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, MD)
• Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Shmuel Fuerst)
• Hashkafa and Medicine (Rav ChaimTwersky)
• Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Gershon Schaffel)
• Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Chaim Twersky)

June 7 - 10, 2007
Eighth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Five Towns: Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst and Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva

Highlights:

• Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Infectious Diseases, the Medical Challenges (Rav Aaron Glatt, MD)
• Halachic Aspects of Infectious Diseases (Rav Naftali Jaeger)
• Self-destructive Acts in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Risky Behavior (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The Non-compliant and Self Destructive Patient (Rav Barry Holzer, MD)
• Smoking- a Sickening Habit (Sholom Huberfeld)
• Smoking - Halachic Isues (Rav Yaakov Feitman)

August 1 - 7, 2007
Tenth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

• Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
• Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
• Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Yichud in Halacha (Rav Yisroel Gans)
• Yichud in Halacha (Rav Dovid Morgenstern)

October 26 - 28, 2007
Ninth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Chabad Shul, Potomac, Maryland l

Highlights:

• Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzchak Breitovitz)
• Physicians & Smicha (Rav Dr. Benjamin Rubin)
• Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Decoding the Halachic Code (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Shalom Bayit (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

November 1 – 4, 2007
First West Coast Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Beth Jacob Synagogue, Beverly Hills, California

Highlights:

• Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Dr. Michael Feinman)
• End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Short Term Life on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Entering a Risk Situation to Save a Life (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• The embryo in Halacha (Rav Nachum Sauer, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Steven Weil, Rav Gershon Bess)
• Halacha and Hashkafa (Rav Baruch Gradin, Rav Daniel Gramma, Rav Avraham Weiner)

January 31, 2007 – February 3, 2008
Fourth Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

• Risk Factor in Medical Procedures (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
• Saving Life Supercedes Shabbat (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
• Life Work Balance (Rebbetzen Via Kimche)
• Risk, Free Will and Medicine (Rav Akiva Tatz)
• End of Life Issues (Dr. Simon Cohen, Rav Yaakov Weiner)