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Jason Weiner

Jason Weiner is the Jewish Chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Prior to his current position, Jason served as the Assistant Rabbi at Young Israel of Century City in West Los Angeles for three years. He earned his Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in New York City, as well as a Masters degree in Jewish History from the Bernard Revel Graduate School at Yeshiva University. He and his wife Lauren were both raised in the Los Angeles area, and currently live in the "Pico/Robertson" neighborhood with their three children, Kayla, Koby, and Ayden.

Secular Versus Jewish Medical Ethics: Different or Not? A Case Study

Stuart Finder, Jason Weiner

Health and Healing, Identity and Responsibility, Teen Approved

A hospital ethicist and chaplain discuss some of the most common, emotional, and perplexing ethical dilemmas that arise in their work, as well as different strategies to approach them, as a basis for examining some of the core distinctions and similarities between contemporary secular medical ethics and traditional Jewish medical ethics.

Should We Ever Pray That Someone Will Die?

Identity and Responsibility

Although we don't actively kill people who are not well, even if it could be considered "mercy killing," is it ever appropriate to hope/pray that a patient or loved one will die? An in-depth text study on some of the relevant sources.

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