Tissue Engineering: A Halachic-Scientific Perspective
How will tissue engineering technologies impact our lives,
and what are the ramifications on Halacha and ethics that result
from the implementation of these technologies?
Opening Session: Torah and Science 2020
First Session – Cultured Meat & its Kashrut Status
Cultured Meat: The Scientific Perspective
The Technology Behind the Production of Cultured Meat and its Market Status
Dr. Itai Kela – Israel Innovations Authority
Prof. Shlomit Levenberg – The Technion
Mr. Didier Toubia – Aleph Farms
Cultured Meat: The Halachic Perspective
The Halachic Status of Cultured Meat
Rav Yaakov Ariel
Rav Asher Weiss
Rav Zvi Ryzman
Second Session – Printed Organs and Halachic Solutions
BioPrinted Organs – The Scientific Lens
BioPrinting Organs and its Current Status in 2020
Prof. Anthony Atala – Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Prof. Tal Dvir – Tel-Aviv University
Mr. Aryeh Batt – Precise-Bio
BioPrinted Organs – The Halachic Lens
What is the Halachic Status of a Living Organism Created in a Laboratory?
Rav Shabtai Rappaport – Head of Beit Midrash for Advanced Torah Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Closing Session
Experts Panel
How will groundbreaking technologies impact the way we approach Torah and Science?
Prof. Joseph Bodenheimer
Prof. Yisrael Aumann
Rav Menachem Perl
Mr. Michael Eisenberg
