Scholar in Residence Weekend: February 4-5
Scholar In Residence Weekend
co-sponsored by Yavneh
Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman
February 4-5
Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman holds a joint appointment in Jewish Ethnography with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1997. His academic interests include medical anthropology, anthropology of experience, Ethiopian-Israelis, anthropological approaches to Hebrew Bible, and Hasidism. He has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The former assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta, Rabbi Dr. Seeman is currently completing the first annotated and critical translation of the ethical writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
Friday February 4th, 8pm (Following dinner at the CJL):
Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Ethics: Why Jews are Different
An exploration of why Jewish bioethics today are so different from Catholic bioethics, and why Jews have been so remarkably open to practices like surrogacy, IVF and even cloning. This will be both a
legal (halakhic) and a cultural investigation.
February 4-5
Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman holds a joint appointment in Jewish Ethnography with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1997. His academic interests include medical anthropology, anthropology of experience, Ethiopian-Israelis, anthropological approaches to Hebrew Bible, and Hasidism. He has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The former assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta, Rabbi Dr. Seeman is currently completing the first annotated and critical translation of the ethical writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
Friday February 4th, 8pm (Following dinner at the CJL):
Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Ethics: Why Jews are Different
An exploration of why Jewish bioethics today are so different from Catholic bioethics, and why Jews have been so remarkably open to practices like surrogacy, IVF and even cloning. This will be both a
legal (halakhic) and a cultural investigation.
Saturday February 5th, before lunch 11:30-12:15pm
Reasons for the Commandments
What Maimonides said, and why the most important Modern Orthodox writers-- Rabbi Soloveitchik, Rabbi Hirsch and Rav Kook all thought he was dead wrong, but why we may need to look again.
