What is the Jewish Law & Ethics Symposium?

The Jewish Law & Ethics Symposium - Conference on Talmud and Law is an opportunity for St. Louis area lawyers to earn continuing legal education credits (CLE’s), while comparing Jewish legal and ethical principles with contemporary law and public policy.

The event, which has been organized annually by Chabad of Greater St. Louis since 1994, is designed to provide a forum for the comparative analysis of legal, ethical and public policy issues under Jewish and secular law, and offers modern legal minds the opportunity to explore age-old Jewish legal and ethical principles and their relevance to current law and public policy.

Who can participate?

The Jewish Law & Ethics Symposium - Conference on Talmud and Law is geared for Attorneys (both Jewish and non-Jewish), as well as law students and interested laymen throughout the community.

What is the Talmud and how is it relevant to secular law?

The Talmud is an ancient code of law compiled over a period of several hundred years and completed in 500 CE. The legendary legal debates and penetrating logic which abound throughout the Talmud's 63 volumes are frequently cited by Jewish and non-Jewish legal scholars and historians, and its discourse encompasses civil, criminal, family, property contracts and government areas of law.