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Society of Jewish Ethics
2005 Annual Meeting Program
January 7-9, 2005
Hyatt Regency, Miami

Friday, January 7

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Paper session: Catherine J. Lasser "Reconsidering the relationship between theory and practice: Generating a Novel Approach to Jewish Ethics"

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Break

11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Paper session: Jeffrey Burack "A Jewish Perspective on Genetic Enhancement"

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch on your own

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Paper session: Tam K. Parker "Retrieving the Defiled: Duty and Obedience asMoral Categories after the Shoah"

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Break

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. SCE
Presidential Address

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
SCE Presidential Reception

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Kabbalat Shabbat services and Shabbat dinner
(pre-registration required for dinner)

Saturday, January 8

7:00 - 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast with an author
(pre-registration required)

11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Optional Shabbat morning service

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch (pre-registration required)

4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
SCE/SJE Joint Plenary: Faith Responses to Aging

5:45 - 7:30 p.m
Dinner on your own

7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
SJE Plenary Michael Walzer "Morality and Universality in Jewish Thought"

9:00 - 10:00 p.m.
SJE Presidential Reception

Sunday, January 9

9:00 -- 10:30 a.m.
Paul Root Wolpe and David Teutsch: Bioethics Case Analysis

10:30 -- 12:00 p.m.
SJE Business meeting