The Ninth Miami International Conference on Torah & Science
Memory, Soul and Brain—
The Meeting Point of Torah, Gerontology and Neuroscience
To be held at The Shul of Bal Harbour, 9540 Collins Avenue, Surfside, FL 33154, USA
December 22-25, 2011
Organizers
Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar, The Shul of Bal Harbour
Professor Joseph S. Bodenheimer, President Emeritus of the Jerusalem College of Technology and Editor-in-Chief of B’Or Ha’Torah
Professor Nathan Katz, Founder-director of the Program in the Study of Spirituality at Florida International University
7:30 pm Thursday, December 22, 2011 Torah and Science of the Mind
Professor Nathan Katz presiding
Welcome: Professor Nathan Katz; Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar
Honoring Professor Herman Branover, Founding Editor-in-Chief of B’Or Ha’Torah
Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar, The Shul of Bal Harbour
“The Implications for Every Area of Society of the Mind/Soul Fusion When the Brain Loses Function”
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, md, Senior pediatric neurologist and director of the Medical Ethics Unit Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem; associate clinical professor of medical ethics at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School; head of the editorial board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia; and director of Yad Harav Herzog
“The Biological Interface of the Brain and the Soul”
Professor Kenneth Heilman, Distinguished Professor of neurology and professor of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida‑Gainesville, and director of the Memory and Cognitive Disorder Clinics
“The Spiritual Brain”
10 am Friday, December 23, 2011 Biology of the Mind and Soul
Yakir Kaufman, md presiding
Rabbi Professor Moshe Dovid Tendler, Rosh yeshivah of the Yeshiva University affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary; professor of biology at Yeshiva College, and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Chair in Jewish Medical Ethics at Yeshiva University
“Ageism: A Halakhic View”
Daniel Drubach, MD, Behavioral neurologist, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
“Pirkei Avot, Self Design, and the Brain”
Barry Baumel, MD, Founder, medical director, and co-CEO of the Baumel-Eisner Neuromedical Institute research center in South Florida
“Is Our Memory Our Life?”
8 pm Saturday, December 24, 2011 Holocaust and Memory
Professor Vera Schwarcz presiding and commenting
Professor Oren Stier, Religious Studies, Florida International University
“From Memory to Oblivion”
Yakir Kaufman, md, Behavioral neurologist and founder of the Center for Brain Health, Herzog Memorial Hospital, Jerusalem
“Memory and the Holocaust”
Professor Rabbi Daniel Hershkowitz, Professor of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa, and Minister of Science and Technology of the State of Israel
“Repressed Memory of Holocaust Survivors”
10 am Sunday, December 25, 2011 Torah, Science and Aging
Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar presiding
Professor Joseph S. Bodenheimer, President Emeritus of the Jerusalem College of Technology and Editor-in-Chief of B’Or Ha’Torah
“The Scope of Our Talmud Sages’ Knowledge in Science and Gerontology”
Mrs. Leah Abramowitz, Director of the Geriatric Institute of Studies in Aging, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem
“Advanced Dementia Care: The Mitsvah, the Challenge, and the Professional Practice”
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, md, Rabbi Professor Moshe Tendler, and Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar
“Dialogue on the Future”
Sholom Dovber Lipskar
Concluding Remarks
shabbaton speakers
Friday evening
Professor Rabbi Daniel Hershkowitz, Greetings
Distinguished Professor Isaac Elishakoff, “Religion and Science: Are They Like Parallel Lines That Do not Intersect?”
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD, “The Fine Line between Ethics and Medical Decisions”
Shabbat morning
Professor Rabbi Daniel Hershkowitz
Rabbi Professor Moshe Tendler
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg
Professor Joseph S. Bodenheimer
Yakir Kaufman, MD
Shabbat afternoon
Mordechai Olesky, MA, “The Breath of G-d and the Soul of Man”
