Dr Sinclair To Speak
Dr Sinclair To Speak
At Jewish Federation
SOUTHBURY â The Federation, Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, Inc is sponsoring a reception and discussion with Dr Daniel Sinclair on Tuesday, February 1, at 5:30 pm, at the Walzer Family Jewish Community Campus, 444 Main Street North.
Dr Sinclair will be speaking on âHuman Rights and Moral Imperatives in Jewish Medical Law and Ethics.â The event is open to the medical and legal community and is free of charge. Hors dâoeuvres will be served and kashrut will be observed.
Seating is limited; RSVP to 267-3177 or via email to lherrmann@jfed.net.
Dr Sinclair is professor of Jewish and comparative biomedical law at the law school of the College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, and a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is an ordained rabbi and holds several law degrees.
He was rabbi of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation from 1984 until 1987. From 1994 to 1997, during his period at Jewsâ College, he held the portfolio for medical ethics in the chief rabbiâs cabinet. In this capacity, he drew up protocols on the Jewish law aspects of fetal tissue, organ donation, the treatment of the terminally ill, living wills, and artificial reproductive techniques.
Dr Sinclair has published widely in the fields of Jewish law, the influence of Jewish law on the legal system of the State of Israel, the relationship between halakhah and ethics, the jurisprudence of Jewish law, comparative and Jewish biomedical law, Jewish identity, and Israeli family law.
He has lectured to academic, professional, and law groups in Europe, Israel, Australia, and the United States, and has featured on two occasions as a keynote speaker for the American Association of Law Studies Convention in Washington D.C. His first book, Tradition and the Biological Revolution, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 1989, and his Jewish Biomedical Law: Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions was published by Oxford University Press in 2003. His edited volume, Law, Judicial Policy and Jewish Identity in the State of Israel was published by The State University of New York at Binghamton in 2000, and another edited volume on Jewish Biomedical Halakhah and Israeli Law is currently being prepared for publication.