Substitute Decision Makers & Halachic Living Wills in Jewish Law
From the 6th International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics, with:
Legal Commentary - Dr. Ben Zion Eliash
Rabbinic Commentary - Rabbi A. Steinberg, MD
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Meet the speakers
Dr. Ben Zion Eliash
Ben Zion Eliash is the Associate Dean at the Carmel Law School in Haifa, Israel. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Israel Youth and Law Program and an Executive Board Member of the Keir Foundation. Previously, Dr. Eliash has taught at Tel Aviv University School of Law, has served as a Member of the Israeli Board of the Advanced Legal Education Executive Committee and is a former Member of the Bnei Brak City Council. Having earned an LL.M.…
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Prof. Steinberg was born in Hoff, Germany. He studied in the Rabbinic Academy of Yeshivat Harav Kook, Jerusalem after which he studied medicine and completed his internship in the Hebrew-University Hadassa Medical School, Jerusalem.Prof. Steinberg served as a Medical Officer in the Israeli Air Force. He was a resident in the department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek, and the department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, New York, after which he became a fellow…