Torah in Motion - Local Programs - International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics

Featured Speakers

Rabbi Dr. Howard Apfel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Columbia University; Masmidim shiur Rebbe, Adjunct instructor, Medical Halacha, Yeshiva University
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Rabbi Dr. Aaron E. Glatt
President and CEO, New Island Hospital: Orthodox Union Scholar In Residence on Jewish Medical Ethics; Assistant Rabbi Young Israel of Woodmere
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Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman
Associate Professor of Emergency Medecine and Philosophy and History of Medecine, Albert Einstein College of Medecine
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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Associate Rabbi Congregation Kehilat Jeshurun; PhD Candidate, Philosophy of Religion, Princeton University
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Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Senior Pediatric Neurologist, and Director, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem; Head of Editorial Board, Talmudic Encyclopedia & Director, Yad Harav Herzog
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Dr. Deena Zimmerman
Director of Education and ResearchTEREM-Emergency Medical Services, Jerusalem; Yoetzet Halacha (Women's Halachic Advisor) and Director of Nishmat Women's Health and Halacha websites
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Conference Committee

Dr. Jonathan Abrams, MD CCFP , Palliative care

Dr. Gerald Friedman MD FRCP(C) Pediatrics

Dr. Warren Goldstein MD FRCP(C), Neurology

Rabbi Jay Kelman
Founding Director of Torah in Motion

Ilana Kelman
Occupational Therapist

The 2010 International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics is scheduled for the weekend of July 1-4 in beautiful Lake Placid New York. We hope you will join us as we build on the tremendous success of last years' s conference

(CME Credit application is pending)

Join a group of medical practitioners and lay enthusiasts for a bouquet of fascinating lectures panels, shiurim , and text based study with some of the world's leading figures in Jewish Medical Ethics.

The aim of this conference is to analyze those ethical concepts that are dealt with on a day to day basis in light of Jewish sources and Jewish law. Jewish Medical Ethics follows a tradition that spans centuries and its impact reaches far beyond the Jewish world. This alone will provide ample material for discussion with Jewish specialists in the field.

We invite not only rabbis and medical doctors but also dentists, pharmacists, therapists, midwives, nurses, biologists, ethicists and interested laymen to join us at this important conference.

The conference will take place at the High Peaks Resort, a beautiful resort located in the midst of the Adirondack Mountains overlooking Mirror Lake, , surrounded by tall, majestic mountains, juxtaposed against clear, deep lakes and rushing rivers. A Unique Destination in a Perfect Setting