The International Conferences of the Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics of the Lisa Kampner Hebrew Academy

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History of the International Conferences on Jewish Medical Ethics

Over the 11 years in which the Conferences on Jewish Medical Ethics were held, many of the world's most influential experts spoke on a variety of topics. The following are just a few whose lectures were captured in audio or video format and are now available for purchase:


From Left: Rabbi Lipner, Institute Dean; the Hon. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Nobel Laureate and Mission Lecturer Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, at a banquet in Tel Aviv during Prime minister's Medical Mission to Israel.


Rabbi Maurice Lamm Founder and President, National Institute for Jewish Hospice, Los Angeles; Chair of Professional Rabbinics and Professor in Halachic Anthropology of Death and Dying, Yeshiva University, New York City.	Rabbi Abraham Twerski, MD Founder and Medical Director, Gateway Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	Hillel Laks, MD Professor and Chief Cadiothoracic Surgery; Director, Heart and Heart


Dr. Abraham Abraham Director, Dept. of Medicine B, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel	Avraham Steinberg, MD Director, Center for Medical Ethics, Hebrew University Hadasshah Medical School; Attending physician, Department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem	Rabbi Moshe Tendler, PhD Professor of Biology and Occupant of the Isaac and Bella Tendler Chair in Jewish medical Ethics, Yeshiva University, New York


Lord Immanuel Jakobovits Chief Rabbi (ret.) of the British Commonwealth, London, England	Rabbi J. David Bleich, PhD Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish law and Ethics, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York City	Edward Teller, PhD Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Consultant and Director Emeritus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California


Fred Rosner, MD, FACP Director, Department of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center, Long Island Jewish Medical Center; Assistant Dean and Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City	Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Executive Vice President Emeritus of the Orthodox Union, the largest Orthodox Jewish organisation in North America	Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth

And many, many more!

History of the International Conferences on Jewish Medical Ethics

And many, many more!