Society of Jewish Ethics
Annual Meeting Program
January 10-12, 2003

Friday, January 10

9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"Communal Self-Defense: An Ethical Puzzle"
Jonathan Crane (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
"Our Shifting/Stable Task: From 'Choosing a Sex Ethic' to Today"
Eugene B. Borowitz (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)

3:00 - 4:30
"Jewish Virtue Ethics"
Dov Nelkin (University of Virginia)

7:00 - 9:00
Shabbat dinner

Saturday, January 11

7:00 - 8:30 a.m.
SCE Breakfast with an author (SJE member Aaron Mackler's recently published Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics is one of the booksbeing discussed)

8:45 - 10:15
Text study

8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
SJE Business Meeting

9:30 - 10:30
Presidential reception

Sunday, January 12

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
"Stems on the Tree of Life: Embryonic Stem Cells and Methodology in Jewish Medical Ethics"
Toby L. Schonfeld (University of Nebraska Medical Center)

10:30 - noon
SJE Business Meeting (if needed)