SJE Bioethics Group Steering Committee

Jeffrey Burack, MD, MPP

Attending Physician, East Bay AIDS Center, Oakland

Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities,

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

burackj@sutterhealth.org

 

Jonathan Cohen, PhD, LLB 

Dean & Associate Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati

 jcohen@huc.edu         


Jonathan K. Crane, Rabbi, PhD

Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought,

Center For Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta

jonathan.k.crane@emory.edu

 

William Cutter, Rabbi, PhD

Steinberg Emeritus Professor of Human Relations

Founding Director, Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles

wcutter@huc.edu

 

Elliot Dorff, Rabbi, PhD

Rector, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies                                                                                   

Sol and Anne Dorff Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of Bioethics

American Jewish University                                                                                             

edorff@aju.edu

 

Alyssa Henning

Northwestern Uniiversity

alyssa.henning@gmail.com

 

Sander H. Mendelson, MD

Bioethics Consultant, Center for Ethics

Senior Attending Cardiologist

Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.

shm@themendelsons.net

 

 

Michal Raucher, PhD [Chair]

Adjunct Instructor in Jewish Thought, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York

miraucher@jtsa.edu

 

Toby L. Schonfeld, PhD

Director, Master of Arts in Bioethics Program

Center for Ethics, Emory University

toby.schonfeld@emory.edu

 

Leonard Sharzer, Rabbi, MD [Immediate Past Chair]

Associate Director for Bioethics. Finkelstein Institute of Religious and Social Studies

The Jewish Theological Seminary                                                                                   

lesharzer@jtsa.edu                                                                                                                      

 

David Teutsch, Rabbi, PhD [Senior Advisor]

Louis and Myra Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization

Chair, Department of Contemporary Jewish Civilization

Director, Center for Jewish Ethics                                                                                                    

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College                                                                             

dteutsch@rrc.edu

 

Paul Root Wolpe, PhD

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics

Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics

Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology

Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University

pwolpe@emory.edu

 

Noam Zohar, Rabbi, PhD

Senior Fellow

Director, Center for the Study of Medicine, Ethics, and Halakha

Shalom Hartman Institute    

Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University, Jerusalem

nzohar@mail.biu.ac.il