Books by Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot Dorff is the author of three JPS books on Jewish ethics: To Do the Right and the Good, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, and Matters of Life and Death, and has edited several anthologies with multiple contributors. He and Louis Newman are co-editors of Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (1995) and Contemporary Jewish Theology (1999). Dorff has served for many years on the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and is currently its Vice Chair. He is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. Louis Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Judaic Studies at Carleton College, and the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (1998), and co-editor with Dorff of two anthologies (see above). He is currently completing An Introduction to Jewish Ethics, a college textbook.