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

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?