Department of Religious Studies, Florida
International University
Professor Nathan Katz, Professor and Chair
The Shul of Bal
Harbour and The Aleph Institute of Miami, Florida
Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar
B’Or
Ha’Torah Journal of Science, Art & Modern Life in the Light of the Torah
Professor Herman Branover, Editor-in-Chief; Ilana Attia, Managing Editor
The Sixth Miami International
Conference
on Torah & Science
ABSOLUTE STANDARDS IN
AN AGE OF RELATIVITY
13-15 December 2005
The Kovens Conference Center
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Followed by a
Shabbaton at The Shul of Bar Harbour
Unity, Duality, Multiplicity in Torah, Kabbalah,
Hasidism,
Talmud, Physics, Biology, Medicine, Psychology, and Modern Life
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of the Sixth Miami International Conference on Torah and Science,
13-15 December 2005
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for participation in the conference
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13
8:00 PM-10:30 PM
Greetings (15 minutes)
Professor Nathan Katz
Professor Herman Branover
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar
CAJE
Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Session 1: Unity, Duality, Multiplicity
Chair: Professor Nathan Katz
Rabbi Professor
Moshe Tendler
Dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS),
Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College, and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella
Tendler Chair in Jewish Medical Ethics at Yeshiva University, USA
“Values and Conflicts: Tradition Confronts Society”
Professor Nathan
Aviezer
Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
“On
Contradictions between Torah and Science: The Creation of the Universe”
Rabbi Arthur
Seltzer, PhD, OMD, ND
Private practice in holistic healing, Cape Town, South
Africa
“The Shadow and the Self”
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14
9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Session 2:
How Should We Teach the Origin and Diversity
of Species?
Chair: Professor Herman Branover
Introductory Remarks by Professor Herman Branover
Professor William A.
Dembski
Science and Theology, Southern Seminary, Louisville, KY, USA
“The Place of
Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences”
Half-hour question and answer period with Professor Dembski.
Rabbi Sholom Lipskar
The Shul of Bal Harbour, Surfside, FL and the Aleph Foundation, USA
“The Foundations of Science—The Foundations of
Torah—Resolution of Conflicts”
10:30AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 1 PM
Session 3:
How Should We Teach the Origin and Diversity
of Species?
(continuation of Session 2)
Chair: Professor Eliezer Zeiger
Professor Eliezer
Eduardo Zeiger
Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
“The Evolution of Consciousness”
Lee Spetner,
PhD
Physics, (retired) Technical Director of Eljim, Ltd., Israel
Currently involved in cancer research, Redoxia Israel Ltd.
“Teaching Evolution in High Schools”
Yaacov Hanoka, PhD
Physics, Vice President
of Evergreen Solar, Marlboro, MA, USA
“The Dating
Scene—Evolution and the Dating Methods”
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Minha and Lunch
2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Session 4: Workshops
Workshop A in the auditorium
“How Should a Torah
Observant Biology Teacher Teach the Origin and Diversity of Species?”
Panel
Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka,
PhD
Lee M. Spetner, PhD
Rabbi Professor Moshe
D. Tendler
Professor Eliezer
Zeiger
Each panelist speaks for five minutes, the floor is opened to
the audience, then each panelist gives a three-minute message to take
home.
Workshop B in the second floor alcove
Poster presentation by Stuart Weinberg, MD
“Words of Prose, Algorithms of Physics in the Creation Text of Genesis”
Workshop C in the lecturers’ lunchroom downstairs. Starts 2:30
PM
Yakir Kaufman, MD and
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
“The Mind-Body
Connection in Torah and Contemporary Medicine: Part III”
(Continuation of the 2003 conference workshops)
8 PM – 10:30 PM
Session 5: Health,
Modern Medicine, and Halakhah
Chair: Professor Miryam Z. Wahrman
Yakir Kaufman, MD
Neurology, Herzog Memorial Hospital, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem,
Israel
“Meaning, Meaninglessness and Health Outcomes: Alzheimer's
Disease as a Model”
Rabbi Aaron Glatt, MD
Medicine/Infectious Diseases; Professor of Medicine and former Associate
Dean New York Medical College; and former Chairman of Medicine, Our Lady
of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx; and Assistant Rabbi, Young Israel of
Woodmere and Congregation Anshei Chesed in Hewlett, NY, USA
“Circumcision and the Metsitsah Be’peh Controversey: Viewed through
the Eyes of Halakhah and theMicroscope”
Rabbi Barry Kinzbrunner
Oncology, National
Medical Director of Vitas Healthcare Corporation, Miami, FL, USA
“The Terry Schiavo Case: A Halakhic Perspective”
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
Consultant on gynecology and fertility, Puah Institute for Fertility and
Medicine in Accordance with Halakhah, Jerusalem, Israel
“What Determines Gender: Genes or External Organs?”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 6: Transition
from Duality to Unity
Chair: Mr. Peter Kalms
Sarah Yehudit Schneider
Director of The Still Small Voice, Jerusalem, Israel
“From Diminishment to Full Stature: The Kabbalistic Stages of
Feminine Development”
Professor Miryam Z.
Wahrman
Biology, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
“DNA Markers that Illuminate Israelite/Jewish Migration”
10:30AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 1 PM
Session 7: Is the
Universe a Unity?
Chair: Professor Nathan Aviezer
Alexander Poltorak,
PhD
Physics, CEO of General Patent Corporation, NY, USA
“The Riddle of Time and the Age of the Universe”
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Author and thinker, Toronto, Canada
“Modeling Reality”
Mordechai Olesky, MSc
Agricultural Consultant, Florida, USA
“G-d’s Creation:
From Unity to Diversity to Unity (The Carbon Cycle and Photosynthesis)”
1 PM – 2 PM Minha and Lunch
2
PM – 4:30 PM
Session 8: Dualities
and Multiplicities?
Chair: Lee Spetner, PhD
Professor Samuel Spero
Mathematics and Computer Education (Emeritus), Cuyahoga
Community College, Cleveland OH, USA
“The Maimonides Experiments and Psychic Dreams”
Rabbi
Chaim Feuerman, PhD
Professor of
Education, Golda Koschitzky Chair
Chair, Mendheim
Student Teaching and Administrative Internship Mentoring Project
Azrieli
Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration
Yeshiva
University, NY, USA
“Intuition, Hokhmat Ha’Partsuf,
and Ruah Ha’Kodesh Analyzed in the Light of the Teachings of our
Sages and Recent Psychological Research”
Ruth Wolf, PhD
Educational Advisor, lecturer in Social Economic Ethical Responsibility,
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Jeffrey Kantor, PhD,
CPA and CMA
Accounting, University of Windsor, Canada; Visiting Professor, Bar Ilan
University, Ramat Gan, Israel
“Sarbanes-Oxley’s
Code of Ethics: An Attempt to Deter Twenty-First Century Wrongdoings
with Financial Implications and a Comparison to the Biblical Era”
Aaron Rabinowitz, PhD
Psychology (Emeritus), Bar Ilan University; private clinical practice,
Israel
“Unity-Duality: Mankind’s Role, a Philosophical, Theological,
and Psychological Analysis”
Jacob Brudoley,
MD
Medicine, Institute for Spirituality and Health, Shawnee Mission Medical
Center, Kansas City, USA
“Multiplicity: Future of the Illusion”
8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Session 9: Towards a
Unified Jewish Personality
Chair: Rabbi Sholom Lipskar
Amiel Levine, MD
Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami
“The Biopsychosocial Model of Illness and the Healing Powers of
Spirituality”
Professor Isaac
Elishakoff
Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
“Hybrid of Two
Sciences: Personal and National Psychologies and the Need for National
Memory”
View the programs of the
third,
fourth and
fifth conferences
Order the Proceedings of the third,
fourth and
fifth conferences in issues 12E, 13E, 14E, 15 and 16 of B’Or Ha’Torah
