Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner joined us in August 2005. He holds a PhD in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as an MA in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. Rabbi Reisner is a longstanding member of the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, where he is a leading voice on biomedical ethics for the Conservative Movement. He was recently awarded the Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship for study at Harvard University by a congregational rabbi and will be on sabbatical from mid-January through June of 2011. This award is granted by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
