Presented by Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, Ph.D.
Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory’s Center for Ethics
Back by popular demand… We are honored to welcome Rabbi Crane back to the Haberman Institute!
Every year scientific advancement and breakthroughs impact our society in new ways. Recent technologies like CRISPR open the doorways to “fixing” genetic “problems” before they arise and to “enhancing” future progeny. Of course, just because something is possible does not mean it should be done. So which doorway, if either, may we justifiably enter?
Join us online to delve into Judaic ethical concerns about each doorway.
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We received such positive feedback on Rabbi Crane’s last lecture for our community, Dying to Die: Jewish Approaches on Final Interventions. You can watch this lecture online here.
Jonathan K. Crane, Ph.D., Rabbi, is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Ethics Center. He is also a professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and a professor of Religion, Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
He earned a BA (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, an MA in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, an MPhil in Gandhian thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in India, an MA in Hebrew literature and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Toronto. The co-author of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Judaism, Race, and Ethics: Conversations and Questions, he is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics.
A past president of the Society of Jewish Ethics, he frequently speaks and publishes broadly on Judaism, ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, narrative ethics, eating, environmental and animal ethics, among other topics. He was awarded an honorary degree from Wheaton College.
Thank you to Elaine Amir for graciously sponsoring this lecture.
Thank you to Andrew R. Ammerman for sponsoring our Spring 2024 program lineup.
He dedicates the semester’s learning in loving memory of Josephine and H. Max Ammerman, Stephen C. Ammerman, and Avi West.