Shabbat Mevarchim: What's in a Blessing? Jewish Bioethics and When Technology Becomes a Blessing and a Curse (cloning, transplans, artificial insemination, and genetic engineering)
With Rabbi Dr. Analia Bortz
Sunday, March 22nd, 12:00pm - 1:00pm via Zoom

Zoom info:
Meeting ID: 285 257 333
By phone: +19294362866, 285257333# US

Rabbi Dr. Analia Bortz, MD, is the first ordained Latin American female Rabbi from the “Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer” in 1994. Rabbi Dr. Bortz is the founder and full-time Senior Rabbi at Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The BBC named Rabbi Dr. Bortz one of the 100 Most Influential Women in 2018 and in 2019 The Forward selected Rabbi Dr. Bortz as one of the 50 Most Influential Jewish Leaders.

Rabbi Bortz has over 25 years of experience as a pulpit Rabbi. As a medical doctor, Dr. Bortz has served in various hospitals and private clinics in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jerusalem, Israel; Chile; and Atlanta, Georgia. As a bioethicist, Dr. Bortz helped create bioethics committees in Chile and at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She is also the founder of Hope for Seeds, for couples struggling with infertility and sterility and a founding board member of Jewish Fertility Foundation. Rabbi Bortz is a co-founder of “BaKeN” (Hebrew: “In the Nest”: Breehut- Kehillah- Nefesh), an organization with the mission of combating the societal stigma of mental illness.