“Doctor, I Need My Rabbi”: How can Halakhah be Practical in Medical Ethics?

Thanks to the editors at The Lehrhaus for giving me the chance to review Rabbi Jason Weiner’s guide. They definitely improved my writing!

Would like to hear thoughts from anyone who cares about medicine and ethics.

“Rabbi Jason Weiner, a rabbi and bioethicist who serves as a synagogue rabbi, a posek, and as a consultant on a hospital ethics committee, has done a service to the halakhically observant Jewish community by writing a clear, modern, and compassionate book about dilemmas which patients, physicians, caregivers, and hospitals are likely to face. Approaching this book with my own particular biases, as an internist, bioethicist, and non-Orthodox but halakhically observant Jew, I would like to summarize its strengths and point out some areas where it might be made even stronger.”