Country Shabbat
Friday, October 24
Put on your finest boots, jeans, and cowboy hats as we sing Shabbat liturgy to the tunes of classic country melodies.
Jewish Medical Ethics
Tuesdays, November 4, 11, 18
Noon
Rabbi Dorff is a visiting professor of law at UCLA School of Law, a distinguished professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University, an author, and a bioethicist. Dorff is recognized as an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism and Jewish bioethics.
Session 1: Fundamental assumptions of Jewish medical ethics in contrast to the secular medical ethics used in the U.S.
Session 2: Beginning of Life issues (including genetic testing and how it relates to the BRCA gene)
Session 3: End of Life issues
