900 Attend Jewish Law Symposium

900 Attorneys and Judges attended the 10th Annual Jewish Law Symposium on Monday September 26st at the Birchwood Manor, in Whippany. The Symposium featured a panel discussion entitled: “Law, Medicine and the Right to Decide”.

RWJ Barnabas Health President and CEO Barry H. Ostrowsky was the featured presenter at the event, and Rabbi Shalom Lubin, Founder of the Jewish Law Symposium & Chabad of SE Morris County moderated a panel discussion featuring: Kenneth Prager MD, Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee at Columbia University Medical Center, Professor Sharona Hoffman, Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University, and Rabbi Michael J. Broyde Legal Scholar at Emory University School of Law.

After a buffet dinner reception, Rabbi Shalom Lubin began the program by thanking all the attendees and sponsors, and shared the significance of the symposium being just before Rosh Hashanah.

“The laws and ethics of the Talmud have served as a cornerstone of humanity’s civil and moral infrastructure, while shaping its’ legal judicial systems. By contrasting the legal reasoning and adaptation of Talmudic and American Law, we can better focus on the legal and ethical dilemmas we encounter in real life scenarios from cradle to grave”, said Lubin

“I find this program to be intellectually stimulating and fascinating; I love attending every year! If you come to the Jewish Law Symposium, you will walk away with a body of knowledge you will never forget!” said Event Chair Cary B. Cheifetz, of Ceconi & Cheifetz, LLC.

Over the past 9 years, the Jewish Law Symposium has become a premier educational event in the New Jersey Legal Community, and past panelists include Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, Justice Barry T. Albin, Justice Gary S. Stein and Justice Virginia Long, all of the NJ Supreme Court, Hon. John W. Bissell, Chief U.S.D.J. (Ret.), Hon. Stanley R. Chesler, U.S.D.J., Hon. Freda L. Wolfson, U.S.D.J., Rutgers Law School Dean John J. Farmer, and TV personalities Andrew P. Napolitano, Jeff Greenfield, and “The Ethicist” Randy Cohen.

The Jewish Law Symposium is a project of Chabad of SE Morris County located at 42 Park Ave. in Madison. For more information please visit www.chabadcares.com, or call (973) 377-0707.