When Serious Illness Strikes and Decisions Have to Be Made Who decides-The Patient, the Physician, the Rabbi, the Family? - Panel Discussion
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Rabbi Howard Jachter
Rabbi Jachter serves as a Dayan on the Beth Din of Elizabeth and has acquired an international reputation of excellence in the area of Get administration. He is a popular and highly regarded teacher at the Torah Academy of Bergen County and has authored two highly acclaimed volumes of Gray Matter which discuss contemporary Halachic issues of major importance (a third volume is expected to be published this coming year). He has authored dozens of scholarly articles that have appeared…
Rabbi Richard Weiss
Rabbi Richard Weiss, MD, received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He earned his MD degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and is a licensed physician in the State of New York, having completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.He is currently the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Hillcrest in Queens and an adjunct assistant professor of Biology at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva…