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Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff is rec­tor and Sol and Anne Dorff Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy at Amer­i­can Jew­ish Uni­ver­si­ty. His many books on Jew­ish ethics and law include Mod­ern Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism (JPS, 2018); For the Love of God and Peo­ple (JPS, 2007); Love Your Neigh­bor and Your­self (JPS, 2003); Mat­ters of Life and Death (JPS, 1998); and the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award – win­ner To Do the Right and the Good (JPS, 2002). 
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Ethics at the Cen­ter: Jew­ish The­o­ry and Prac­tice for Liv­ing a Moral Life
Elliot N. Dorff
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Mod­ern Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Evolv­ing Thought and Practice
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
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Jews and Genes: The Genet­ic Future in Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Thought
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Dr. Laurie Zoloth, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Sex and Intimacy
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Social Justice
Elliot N. Dorff & Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: War and Nation­al Security
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Power
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, ed.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Body
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Money
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, eds.
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The Jew­ish Approach to Repair­ing the World (Tikkun Olam): A Brief Intro­duc­tion for Christians
Elliot N. Dorff
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For the Love of God and Peo­ple: A Phi­los­o­phy of Jew­ish Law
Elliot N. Dorff
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The Way into Tikkun Olam: Repair­ing the World
Elliot N. Dorff
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The Unfold­ing Tradition
Elliot N. Dorff

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