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Friday, August 30 • 9:15pm - 10:30pm
Who's Your Mama? Gestation, DNA, Diapers: The Constitution of Jewish Motherhood

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Recent scientific advancements in procreative technologies make it possible for an otherwise infertile woman to carry a fetus and give birth to it--all without sharing any DNA with that child. Does this make her a mother? Join in this raucous investigation of some of the classic Jewish texts and tensions about what constitutes motherhood.
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Jonathan Crane

Center for Ethics, Emory University
Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University's Center for Ethics. Currently president of the Society of Jewish Ethics, Crane co-edited (with Elliot Dorff) The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, and authored Narratives and Jewish... Read More →

Friday August 30, 2013 9:15pm - 10:30pm EDT
Spiritual Center
  Interactive-Discussion, Shabbat Appropriate? Can be modified to be so.
  • Noise Level Lively Discussion
  • Preferred Venue Indoor Room
  • Special Instructions Private -- Needs to be Shabbat Appropriate -- (Idea to have media console to hook up a laptop with internet and sound. He has a PC Dell Latitude Laptop.)
  • Tags Family, Health

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