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With a growing number of states legalizing Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), including those with the largest Jewish populations in the United States, how might we understand the availability of this option in light of Jewish wisdom? Watch our conversation with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody, executive director of Ematai, and explore traditional understandings of Jewish law as it relates to the increasing availability of MAiD.

Watch the other videos in this series: One Jewish Family’s Story and What’s a Jew to Do?

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Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive director of Ematai. He previously served as the co-dean of Tikvah Online Academy, a senior instructor at Yeshivat Hakotel, and as a junior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.



Rabbi Brody’s career has focused on making Jewish texts accessible to broader audiences while applying them to contemporary social and ethical dilemmas. His award-winning essays have been cited in Israeli Supreme Court decisions and have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Public Discourse, City Journal, Mosaic, First Things, Tradition, The Jerusalem Post, Tablet, The Forward, Hakirah, Jewish Review of Books, and other popular and scholarly publications. He is the author of two award-winning books, A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates (Maggid) and Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality, which was also published in Hebrew as Musar ve-Milchama.



A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, an MA in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University, and his PhD from Bar Ilan University Law School. Rabbi Brody has been an invited scholar-in-residence at over 60 distinguished congregations and campuses in the United States, Canada, England, and Israel.