CHABAD at DARTMOUTH Presents:




RABBI SHLOMO YAFFE




THIS YEAR'S DR. TZVI YEHUDA SAKS MEMORIAL LECTURE ON TORAH AND SCIENCE  SPEAKER




THE ETHICS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING


MAY 3RD @ 4PM

KEMENY 007


Chabad at Dartmouth is proud to invite the Dartmouth community to the annual Dr. Tzvi Yehuda Saks Memorial Lecture on Torah and Science. The goal of the lecture is to better connect the fields of religion and science and to show that the secular and religious worlds are not automatically opposed to one another and in fact can complement one another.




This years lecture will be presented by Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe who is the Permanent Scholar- in-Residence to Chabad at Harvard and Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law in New York, NY.




Rabbi Yaffe has lectured and led seminars throughout North America, as well as in Mexico, Europe, and South Africa. Rabbi Yaffe was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Portland, ME, and Los Angeles, CA.  He studied at Yeshivot (rabbinic colleges) in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Brooklyn, NY  in 1989.  He was a fellow  of the post-ordination  program at the Leeds Kollel in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England from 1990- 1992.




The topic of the lecture will be:




Genetic Engineering: Designer babies - When you can choose your baby's sex appearance and genetic predispositions- should you?