Kalsman Institute Co-sponsors Bioethics Symposium

The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, a center at HUC-JIR’s Jack H. Skirball Campus in Los Angeles, recently co-sponsored the symposium, “Biomedical Ethics: Traditional Jewish Values Across the Continuum of Life,” during the 2012 Meeting for the Society for Jewish Ethics, held from January 4-8 in Washington, D.C.

While the annual meeting – run concurrently with those of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics – targeted ethics scholars, Kalsman officials were excited to offer a special bioethics symposium to physicians, nurses, social workers, rabbis, and chaplains, and lay people interested in looking at bioethics issues at the end-of-life through a Jewish lens. One hundred people attended the symposium, which offered continuing-education units for marriage and family therapists, social workers, and registered nurses.

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