A conference on medical ethics according to the Talmud and in light of modern scientific and technological discoveries will be held in New York next month under the sponsorship of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist Organization of America, it was announced here today by Hadassah president Mrs. Faye Schenk. She said the conference would be attended by leading non-Orthodox and Orthodox medical scientists and doctors.
Mrs. Schenk also announced that a 30-foot statue by Jacques Lipschitz will be erected on the grounds of Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus as a memorial to Jewish generations, beginning with the Patriarchs. The sculptor will contribute the statue without fee, Mrs. Schenk said. An American donor has contributed the money necessary to erect it on its 10-foot pedestal, she said.
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