August 18 - 24, 1998
First Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Halacha and Medicine, Q & A (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
The Moment of Death (Rav Simcha Bumin Lazarson)
Treatment of the Terminally Ill (Rav Shmuel Jacobovitz)
Dilemnas in Cardiac ICU (Prof. Meyer Gottesman)
Brain Death (Prof. Moshe Dickman)

August 4 - 11, 1999
Second Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
King Solomon Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Overview of Jewish Medical Ethics (Dr. L. Zacharowicz, Rav Y. Weiner)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Y. Weiner and Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Assisted Reproduction Techniques in Halacha (Rav Y. Weiner)
The Definition of Brain Death (Professor Moshe Dickman, Professor Abraham Steinberg)
Dilemmas in C.C.U. (Professor M. Gottesman, Rav Y. Weiner)
Suicide in Halacha (Rav Y. Weiner)
Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Brain Death in Halacha (Rav S. B. Lazarson)
Suicide - The Obligation to Protect One's Health (Rav Y. Weiner)
Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Obligation to Protect One's Health - Smoking (Rav Y. Weiner)
Non Life-Threatening Situation on Shabbat (Rav David Blum)
Smoking (Rav Ettinger)
Where we've been and where we're going in Jewish medical ethics. (Rav Y. Weiner)

August 16 - 23, 2000
Third Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Abortions (Dr. Yigal Gat)
Multi-fetal reduction (Dr. Yigal Gat)
Pikuach nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
Medical treatment (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Brain death (Rav Simcha Bumin Lazarson)
Smoking and self abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Surrogate motherhood (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Assisted reproduction technology (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

August 1 - 8, 2001
Fourth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

A physician returning home on Shabbat after a Pikuach Nefesh call (Rav Dovid Blum)
Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Intrusion into the rights of others) (Rav Yitzchak Solberstein)
The gosses in Halachah (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Brain death (Prof. Avraham Steinberg)
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (Dr. Yoram Chovav)
Cloning (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Male infertility (Dr. Yigal Gat)
The geriatric and demented patient (Dr. Menachem Brayer)

July 1 - August 7, 2002
Fifth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

The premature baby: Shabbat and heroic intervention (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Limits of Pikuach Nefesh (Probable threat to life in the future) (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Animal experimentation (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Color change as a medical indicator on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Blum)
Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Brain death (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu)
Smoking and self-abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The anencephalitic baby (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)

August 20 - 27, 2003
Sixth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Writing on Shabbat for medical purposes when there are and are not conditions of Pikuach Nefesh (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Pru Urvu - The commandment to be fruitful and multiply (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Contraception in the light of Pru Urvu (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Brain death (Rav Shmuel Jacobovitz)
The premature and the anencephalitic baby (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Dr. Yoram Chovav)
End of life issues (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Meir Lau)

February 20 - 23, 2003
First American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

The Future of Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Introduction to The Halachic Status of the Embryo and Fetus in Vivo and in Vitro (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
ART - Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Professor Richard V. Grazi, Rav Tzvi Flaum, Rav Dovid Weinberger, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Belsky)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Hershel Shechter)

January 29 - February 1, 2004
First Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

Introduction to The Halachic Status of the Embryo and Fetus in Vivo and in Vitro (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Embryo and Fetus in Halachah (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
Sanctity of Life - End of Life Issues (Rav Mordechai Ginsbury, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rav Dr. Akiva Tatz, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Introduction to Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Halachic Perspetives on Altruistic Giving and the Selling of Organs (Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

February 19 - 22, 2004
Second American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Eye Diseases and Danger to Limbs (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Ophthamological Care on Shabbat: Dilemmas from a Physician's Perspective (Rav Daniel Roth)
Sanctity of Life (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Rav Dovid Weinberger, Rav Yaakov Weiner, Allen Lempe)
Introduction to Artificial Insemination (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Shabbat & Medicine (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Eye Diseases and Danger to Limbs on Shabbat (Rav Yisroel Belsky)
Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Artificial Insemination and Surrogate Motherhood (Rav Mordechai Willig)

May 13 - 16, 2004
Third American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Congregation Beth Torah, 1061 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, USA

Highlights:

Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Introduction to Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Yisrael Belsky)
Medical Confidentiality (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Hershel Schechter)

August 10 - 17, 2004
Seventh Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Tubal ligation (female sterilization) (Rav Dovid Morgenstein)
Medical confidentiality (Rav Yisroel Ganz)
Eating on Yom Kippur - permissible amounts: natural vs. artificial feeding (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Tested, experimental and metaphysical medications in Halacha (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
Returning from an emergency call on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Blum)
Nightly lectures will be presented on the following topics:
Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Determining the instant of death (Rav Chanina Rotenberg)
Assisted reproduction technology (ART) (Rav Dovid Blum)
Organ Transplants (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

December 2 - 5, 2004
First Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological college, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

Organ transplants from live donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Rav G. Schaffel)
Stem Cell research (Rav Chaim Twersky, Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Gedalia Schwartz )
Shabbat and medicine (Rav Chaim Twersky, Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
Overview of Medical Ethics and Halacha (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)

January 20 - 23, 2005
Fourth American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel _Ezras Israel, Potomac and The Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Highlights:

Organ Transplants from Live Donors (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yosef Singer)
Surgical Procedures, Morbidity and Mortality of Love Donor Organ Donation (Allan D. Kirk MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.S.)
Entering Risk to Save another Life (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
In Vitro and In Vivo Embryo in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Jewish Philosophy on Stem Cells and Cloning (Rav Aharon Lopiansky)
Cloning and Stem Cell Research (Rav E. Reingold, Rav Yitzchok Breitowitz, JD)
Preconception Gender Selection (Rav Barry Freundel)

January 27 - 30, 2005
Second Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London, England

Highlights:

Pikuach Nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
Returning One's Life and Soul (Rav Harvey Belovski)
Designer Babies (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Surrogate Motherhood (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
The Obligation to Protect One's Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Dovid Bloom)
Does my Free Will Affect You? (Rav Akiva Tatz)
End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Jewish Doctor (Rav Chaim Sarna, Rosh Yeshivat Chevron, Jerusalem)

March 10 - 13, 2005
Fifth American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Young Israel of Lawrence, Five Towns, New York, USA

Highlights:

Contemporary Medical Ethics (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
"Be fruitful and multiply"and the Jewish Family (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yisroel Belsky)
Preconception Gender Selection (Rav Moshe Teitelbaum Rav Yaakov Feitman, Andrew Silverman, MD, Obg, Gyn)
The Moment of Death (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Hershel Schachter, Leon Zacharowicz, MD)
Bioethical Dilemmas (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Hershel Schachter, Leon Zacharowicz, MD)

August 23 - 30, 2005
Eighth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Returning from an Emergency Call on Shabbat (Rav Dovid Morgenstern, Rav Simcha Bunim Lazerson)
The Use of Electricity on Shabbat (Rav Yitzchak Darzi)
Human Dignity in Halacha (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Use of Fetal Tissue for treating Parkinson and Alzheimer Disease (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Physicians "On call" during Shabbat (Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth)
Questions and Answers (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Nightly lectures presented on the following topics:
- Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
- Determining the instant of death (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
- Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
- Organ Transplants (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Dovid Blume)

December 8 - 11, 2005
Second Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

Self abuse and cosmetic surgery (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Elective gastriv surgery (Rav Morgenstern)
Commercialization of organ donations (Tav Yaakov Weiner)
Prophylactic surgery based on genetic dispositon (Rav Gedalia Schwartz)
Substance abuse and overeating (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Smoking (Rav Shmuel Feurst)
Womwn's program (Rav G. Schaffel and Rav Chaim Twersky)

January 26 - 29, 2006
Third Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

Entering Situations of Risk to Life and Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
ART & Surrogate Motherhood (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
End of Life Issues (Rav Avraham Friedlander)
Communicating with Patients and Relatives (Rav Mordechai Ginsbury, Rav Harvey Belovski)
Smoking in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Treatment of Contagious Disease (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Aharon Dovid Dunner)

March 2 - 5, 2006
Sixth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Congregation Beth Torah, 1061 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, USA

Highlights:

Personal Abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Physician Need for Rest vis a vis Patient Demand for Care (Rav Herchel Shachter)
End of Life Issues (Rav Avraham Friedlander)
Entering a Situation Hazardous to Life versus a situation hazardous to Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Kashrut of Medicines and Vitamins (Rav Moshe Y. Weiner)
Smoking in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Elimelech Bluth)
Personal Obligation to Protect Ones Body and Health (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

May 25 - 28, 2006
Seventh Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Harav Menachem and Rochel Goldberg Kollel, Agudath Israel of Detroit and
Congregation Agudas Yisroel-Mogen Avraham, Oak Park/Southfield, Michigan

Highlights:

Assisted Reproductive Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Halachic Basis for not Harming Oneself (Rav Asher Eisenberger)
Cosmetic, bariatric and refractive surgery (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Gosses and DNR (Rav Yehuda Bakst)
Palliative Care (Rav Shmuel Irons)
Dilemmas of Limited Resources (Rav Shraga Rothbart, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Contemporary Medical Cases in Israel (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Role of the Rav in Medical Questions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
How a Gadol Decided a Complex Medical Question (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Jewish Philosophy of Stem Cell Research and Gene Therapy (Rav Shmuel Irons)
Gene Therapy (Rav Yissachar Wolf)
Genetics: Can We Alter What our Parents and Hashem Gave us? (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

April 26 - 29, 2007
Third Annual Midwest Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois, USA

Highlights:

Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Infectious Diseases (Rav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, MD)
Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Pikuach Nefesh and Shabbat (Rav Shmuel Fuerst)
Hashkafa and Medicine (Rav ChaimTwersky)
Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Gershon Schaffel)
Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Chaim Twersky)

June 7 - 10, 2007
Eighth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Five Towns: Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst and Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva

Highlights:

Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Infectious Diseases, the Medical Challenges (Rav Aaron Glatt, MD)
Halachic Aspects of Infectious Diseases (Rav Naftali Jaeger)
Self-destructive Acts in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Risky Behavior (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Non-compliant and Self Destructive Patient (Rav Barry Holzer, MD)
Smoking- a Sickening Habit (Sholom Huberfeld)
Smoking - Halachic Isues (Rav Yaakov Feitman)

August 1 - 7, 2007
Tenth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Yichud in Halacha (Rav Yisroel Gans)
Yichud in Halacha (Rav Dovid Morgenstern)

October 26 - 28, 2007
Ninth Annual American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Chabad Shul, Potomac, Maryland

Highlights:

Risk Factors in Medical Decisions (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzchak Breitovitz)
Physicians & Smicha (Rav Dr. Benjamin Rubin)
Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Decoding the Halachic Code (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Stem Cell Research (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Shalom Bayit (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

November 1 - 4, 2007
First West Coast Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Beth Jacob Synagogue, Beverly Hills, California

Highlights:

Assisted Reproduction Techniques (Dr. Michael Feinman)
End of Life Issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Short Term Life on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Entering a Risk Situation to Save a Life (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The embryo in Halacha (Rav Nachum Sauer, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Steven Weil, Rav Gershon Bess)
Halacha and Hashkafa (Rav Baruch Gradin, Rav Daniel Gramma, Rav Avraham Weiner)

January 31, 2007 - February 3, 2008
Fourth Annual European Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Raleigh Close Synagogue, Hendon, London

Highlights:

Risk Factor in Medical Procedures (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu)
Saving Life Supercedes Shabbat (Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Life Work Balance (Rebbetzen Via Kimche)
Risk, Free Will and Medicine (Rav Akiva Tatz)
End of Life Issues (Dr. Simon Cohen, Rav Yaakov Weiner)

May 21 - 26, 2008
Eighth American Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Agudath Israel of Detroit and
Congregation Agudas Yisroel-Mogen Avraham Oak Park/Southfield, Michigan

Highlights:

Designer babies (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Alternative Medicine: Halachic background and early responsa (Rabbi Asher Eisengerger)
Alternative Medicine: Modern responsa and contemporary applications (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Overview to Physician financial conduct - Billing practices and financial issues (Dr. Steven Tennenberg)
Physician financial conduct - Billing practices and financial issues (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Remuneration issues for the physician (Rabbi Doniel Neustadt)
How far does the leniency of pikuach nefesh allow us to go? (Rav Shmuel Irons)
Selling organs for transplantation and other contemporary questions (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Writing and computer use in the hospital on Shabbos (Rabbi Yissachar Wolf)
Bikur cholim (Rabbi Reuven Spolter)
Dilemmas in bikur cholim (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Introduction: Medicolegal Issues - disclosure and confidentiality, HIPAA and Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
To tell the truth, some of the truth or nothing of the truth to patients (Rabbi Shraga Rothbart)
Physician accountability and liability (Rabbi Ari Marburger)
Malpractice - Can you sue your doctor? (Rabbi Ari Marburger)
Medicolegal questions and answers (HaRav Weiner, Rabbi Marburger, Rabbi Eisenberger)
Introduction: Legal Issues - Secular contracts and Halachic ramifications (Rabbi Ari Marburger)
Landlord and tenant relationships (Rabbi Ari Marburger)
Prenuptial agreements (Rabbi Asher Eisenberger)
Financial contracts - Financing, partnerships and heter iska (Rabbi Ari Marburger)
Arkaos - Suing and representing a Jew in secular court (Rabbi Doniel Neustadt)

August 20 - 26, 2008
Eleventh Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Contemporary Issues in Medical Ethics (Rav Yitzchak Silberstein)
Physician Financial Conduct and Remuneration (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Nechemia Zalman Goldberg)
Moment of Death (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Shabbat and Medicine (Rav Yitzchak Darzi, Rav David Blume, Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Question and Answer Session (Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Alternative Medicine in Halacha (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Physician Accountability, Liability and Malpractice (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Eliezer Rot)
The Sam Golubchik Memorial Lecture (Dr. Leon Zacharowicz)
Ministry of Health�s Decision to connect ventilators to timers (Rav Dovid Morgenstern)
R&R and Physician Availability (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yisroel Ganz)

Feb. 26 - March 1, 2009
The Seventh New York Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Congregation Edmond J. Safra at The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue

Highlights:

Entering Risk to Save a Life (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, Harav Hershel Shachter)
A.R.T. (Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
The Elderly in Halacha (Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
Short Term Life in Halacha (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner)
End of Life Issues (Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, Dr. Leon Zacharowits Dr. Irving Lebovics)
Treatment of Infectious Diseases (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, Rabbi Mordchai Willig)
Moment of Death (Rabbi Yaakov Weiner, Rabbi Asher Bush)

August 12 - 18, 2009
Eleventh Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Boys Town, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Alternative Medical Techniques (Rav Dovid Morgenstern, Rav Eliezer Roth, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Question and Answer Session (Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Carrying Medical Equipment on Shabes in the Public Area (Rav Eliav Greenbaum, Rav Yitzchak Darzi, Rav Yehoshua Ze�ev Zand, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Saving a Life (Rav Yitzhak Zilberstein, Rav Yaakov Weiner)

May 27 - 30, 2010
Third Biennial Detroit Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and
The Harav Menachem and Rochel Goldberg Kollel

Highlights:

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for disease prevention and gender selection Halacha (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Impact of psychological factors and mental distress on medical halacha decisions: (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Gene therapy (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Designer babies: Altering physical and personality traits with gene therapy (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Shomer Shabbos residency: Preference or obligation (HaRav Doniel Neustadt)
Elective surgery before Shabbos (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Update from Israel - Brain death, organ donor cards, ventilator timers (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Treating diverse cultures (HaRav Yaakov Weiner )
Rabbinic and physician confidentiality regarding medical issues in shidduchin (HaRav Michoel Cohen)
Truth telling: From physicians to patients and from families to family members (HaRav Yaakov Weiner )
Sakanas Eiver on Shabbos: Threat to limbs (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)
Limb and orthopedic emergencies on Shabbos (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Eye emergencies on Shabbos (HaRav Shmuel Irons)
Dental emergencies on Shabbos (HaRav Yaakov Weiner)

August 4 - 10, 2010
Thirteenth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
23 Yona Street, Jerusalem, Israel

Highlights:

Elective Surgery before Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzhak Zilberstein)
Dina demalchuta dina (Rav Nechemia Zalman Goldberg, Rav Eliezer Roth, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
The Shabbat elevator (Rav Yitzchak Darzi)
Question and Answer Session (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
IVF: laboratory sterility vs. cleanliness (Rav Dovid Morgenstern)
End of life issues (Rav Simcha Bunim Lazerson)
Situations of probable chilul Shabbat before Shabbat (Rav Yitzhak Kaufman)
Infertility issues (Rav Eliezer Greenbaum)

February 20, 2011
First Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha in cooperation with Chayim Aruchim a project of Agudat Israel of America
Congregation Beth Torah, Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Highlights:

Introduction to end of life issues and returning from an emergency on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
End of life (Rav Zvi Ausch)
Returning from an emergency on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Hersh Heilpern)
Palliative care and the risk of hastening death: perception or reality (Dr. Russel K. Portenoy)
End of life-session directed at community rabbonim and health professionals (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

August 24-30, 2011
Fourteenth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha
Hosted by Yad Sarah, International Headquarters

Highlights:

Child protection (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dr. Michael Bonzel, Rav Zvi Gertner, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rav Eliezer Roth, Rav Doron Agasi)
Electrical appliances on Shabbat (Rav Yitzchak Darzi, Rav Yehoshua Zened)
Question and Answer Session (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Returning from a life saving activity on Shabbat (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzhak Kaufman)
Spiritual Dangers (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzhak Zilberstein)

May 17 - 20, 2012
Fourth Biennial Detroit Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha Hosted by Partners in Torah, Southfield/Oak Park, Michigan

Highlights:

The doctor-patient relationship (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Communal obligations in healthcare (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yissachar Wolf)
Childhood immunizations: Mandatory or voluntary & communal implications (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Dr. Leonard Pollack)
Returning from a pikuach nefesh mission on Shabbos (Rav Doniel Neustadt, Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Survey of recent medical Halacha cases (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Post-mortem C-section and Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) (Rav Yaakov Weiner)
Physician strikes (Rav Michoel Cohen)
Treating one's parents (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Asher Eisenberger)
Metzitba B'peh during circumcision (Rav Avi Cohen)
Update from Israel � End of life care, organ donations after cardiac death (Rav Yaakov Weiner)

August 8-14, 2012
Fifteenth Annual Jerusalem Yarchei Kallah: Medicine and Halacha

Highlights:

Self Abuse (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Yitzhak Zilberstein, Rav Yosef Hofner, Dr. Judah Weiner)
Question and Answer Session (Rav Moshe Sternbuch)
Bariatric and Cosmetic Surgery (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg)
Treating One�s Parents (Rav Yaakov Weiner, Rav Eliezer Roth, Rav Avi Goldmintz)