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 The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics Fourth Annual Conference We are proud to announce that the The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics Fourth Annual Conference will be held at the Hilton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 2008. The meeting is in conjunction with the Society of Jewish Ethics, occurring January 4-6, 2008, at the Hilton in Atlanta. On Sunday morning, there will be a joint conference of the ACJB and SJE. The ACJB is a project on Jewish Bioethics and is a joint venture of ethics centers and related programs at: American Jewish University; Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health; Hebrew Union College-University of Cincinnati, Center for the Study of Contemporary Moral Problems; The Jewish Theological Seminary, Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies; Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics; Shalom Hartman Institute; University of Pennsylvania, Center for Bioethics; and Yeshiva University. The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics seeks to engage the Jewish community in considering biomedical decisions. While recognizing that any coherent Jewish bioethics rests on the legacy of our inherited norms, values, and experience, the Coalition advocates the development of a variety of methodologies that bring clarity and authenticity to difficult life choices. The ACJB strives to broaden and deepen biomedical conversation in Jewish life and to create models of cooperation across the spectrum of Jewish practice. For information, please consult the SJE website: www.societyofjewishethics.org, or contact Jill Tollefson, Executive Secretary, Carleton College, Department of Religion, jtollefs@carleton.edu, 507-646-4232. For more information regarding the ACJB, please see the website: www.society.bioethics.net/acjb or contact Rabbi Leonard A Sharzer MD, President, Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics, Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027; tel: 212-678-8000 ext 8164, email: lesharzer@jtsa.edu. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
