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David Shabtai

Rabbi David Shabtai, MD is a fellow of the Wexner Kollel Elyon at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and teaches Jewish medical ethics at Yeshiva University… [More]
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April 9, 2013
6:29 am

Jewish perspectives on bioethics: Questioning certainties

A little while ago, another case of a brain dead patient waking up made the medical news rounds. Brain death is supposed to describe a patient whose......

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March 11, 2013
6:50 am

Jewish perspectives on bioethics: What it means to be alive

Pregnant at 13 weeks, Tamara Mann was told that tragically, her fetus would not survive (she tells her story here). She opted to terminate the nascent pregnancy......

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June 7, 2012
12:07 am

Misplaced priorities

Most countries have elaborate algorithms to allocate organs for transplant when they become available, but Israel has gone too far. In all other countries, criteria are primarily based on......

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