LimmudFest is back in person for a weekend of celebrating, learning, and doing Jewish.
LimmudFest New Orleans is a weekend festival of Jewish learning, arts, culture and spirituality featuring 70+ sessions from local, regional and national presenters. It is part of a global movement inspired by the idea that when Jews from diverse backgrounds come together to celebrate and learn about everything and anything Jewish, the entire community is enriched.
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Newer approaches to organ donation raise significant questions about our definitions of death. This session will discuss whether or not brain death is really death and the newer DCD (donation after cardiac death). In this scenario death is not declared until organ harvest is just about to begin. There are serious ethical questions about DCD. We will address Jewish approaches to when live begins and when it ends.
Dr. Gerson is a retired pediatric otolaryngologist and an active mohelet with a doctorate in bioethics. She is a faculty member of the medical schools of Northwestern and Tulane universities.
