Join us from August 16 - 23, 2000 in Jerusalem in a stimulating Yeshiva environment of chevruta (partner) learning and shiurim (lectures). YK2000 will take place in the comfortably air-conditioned Beit Midrash of Boys Town in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Experienced and enthusiastic talmidei chachamim will be paired with the participants for the entire week. And as in the previous Yarchei Kallah of 1998 and 1999, a distinguished and highly learned rostrum of rabbinical authorities will deliver in-depth analyses of current issues in Jewish medical ethics.

The main planned topics include:
Abortions, multi-fetal reduction
Pikuach nefesh and Shabbat
Medical treatment and "placing obstacles before the blind"
Open sessions for questions and answers

Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
Organ transplants from live donors
Brain death
Smoking and self abuse
Surrogate motherhood
Assisted reproduction technology

The tentative list of rabbinical lecturers is:
Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth
Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg
Rav Yitschok Silberstein
Rav Moshe Sternbuch
Rav Simcha Bunim Lazarson
Rav Shmuel Jacobovitz
Rav Yaakov Weiner

The tentative list of medical lecturers is:
Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Dr. Avraham Avraham
Prof. Meyer Gottesman
Prof. Moshe Dickman

Registration fees:
Before 17.7.2000	$750.00
After 17.7.2000	$850.00
50 Category 1 CME credits:	$250.00
For certificate of proof from the CME office, an additional charge of $25.00 is required.

Previous years' credits have been awarded through Einstein Medical School and SUNY Medical School, New York

For further information, please contact us at: Telefax:972-2-538-3558, Email: info@j-c-r.org