Instructor: Keren Alpert, Director of Lifelong Learning
Mondays, January 11 - April 5 at 10:00am
No class on January 18, January 25, and February 15

Human cloning. Genetic identity. Assisted suicide. Surrogacy. Significant progress — but thorny ethical issues. Modern medical advances can improve and prolong life but also raise dilemmas about its sanctity and dignity — and Judaism has a lot to say about it. This 10-session course explores the positive, negative, beneficial, and detrimental aspects of the new technologies in the medical field and the wisdom Judaism offers us in our encounters with them. The course was designed and written by world-renowned medical ethicist, Rabbi Elliot Dorff, PhD (author of Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics).