Medical Ethics and the Modern State of Israel with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody

If you've enjoyed our podcast, please consider supporting the Yeshiva's annual scholarship campaign and help us ensure that no student in need of financial help is turned away. Thank you very much!Diaspora poskim are deeply divided about the halakhic status of brain stem death as the definition of halakhic death. Yet in Israel, this is arguably the one issue that unifies almost all rabbis across the ideological spectrum of Religious Zionism. In this episode, Rav David Silverstein is joined by Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody to discuss this issue as well as the larger  challenges and opportunities of legislating halakha in the modern state of Israel. Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive director of Ematai and the Jewish Law Live columnist for the Jerusalem Post. He previously served as the founding director of the Tikvah Overseas Student Institute and co-dean of Tikvah Online Academy, a senior instructor at Yeshivat Hakotel, and as a junior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, an MA in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University, and his PhD from Bar Ilan University Law School, where he continues to serve as a post-doctoral fellow. His first book, A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates (Maggid), received a National Jewish Book Award. His next book, Judaism Confronts War: Jewish Military Ethics for the 21st Century, is scheduled to be published in both Hebrew and English in early 2024.Questions? Feedback? Have a topic you'd like to hear discussed? Email us at [email protected] and we look forward to "continuing the conversation." Music from "Ashreinu" by Omek HaDavarRecorded in the Old City of Jerusalem at Yeshivat Orayta (orayta.org) | Facebook | Instagram