ABOUT ACJB

The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics seeks to engage the Jewish community in considering biomedical decisions. While recognizing that any coherent Jewish bioethics rests on the legacy of our inherited norms, values, and experience, the Coalition advocates the development of a variety of methodologies that bring clarity and authenticity to difficult life choices. The ACJB strives to broaden and deepen biomedical conversation in Jewish life and to create models of cooperation across the spectrum of Jewish practice.

The Coalition is the joint venture of ethics centers and related programs at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the University of Judaism, the Shalom Hartman Institute, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and the University of Pennsylvania - Center for Bioethics.