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Stem Cell research in Jewish Law

Greg just posted his own coming attractions; I'd like to add one of my own.
A lecture in memory of Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld to be given by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz (Professor of Law at University of Maryland Law School) on the subject of stem cell research is scheduled for 7 PM, Sunday May 2, 2004 at Yeshivat Rambam. For an article by Rabbi Breitowitz on what appears to be a similar subject check this out.
UPDATE: The lecture is titled "Halachic Considerations of Human cloning and Stem Cell research" and Mincha (afternoon prayers) are scheduled at 6:45.
I didn't know Rabbi Dr. Rosenfeld very well, but he was the father of one of my closest friends. Rabbi Dr. Rosenfeld was a master of both Torah (religious knowledge) and Mada (secular knowledge or science). Many subscribe to the idea of mixing both; but few have done it as well as Rabbi Dr. Rosenfeld did.