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	Elliot N. Dorff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elliot N. Dorff is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of Jewish theology at the University of Judaism in California, author, and a bio-ethicist.
		Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism, Bioethics, and acknowledged within the Conservative community as an expert decisor of Jewish law.
		Dorff is a prolific member of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa (opinion papers and legal rulings) on many aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elliot_N._Dorff (385 words)

	Elliot N. Dorff -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dorff was ordained as a (Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law) rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1970.
		Dorff is a prolific member of the (Click link for more info and facts about Rabbinical Assembly) Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many (Click link for more info and facts about responsa) responsa (opinion papers and legal rulings) on many aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.
		Dorff has written over one hundred articles on (The philosophical study of moral values and rules) ethics, Jewish thought, (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish law and custom) Jewish law and custom, and bioethics.
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		Elliot N. Dorff is a Conservative rabbi, 0 a professor of 0 Jewish theology at 9 the University of Judaism 5 in California, author, 0 and a bio-ethicist.
		Dorff is an 1 expert in the philosophy 2 of Conservative Judaism, 3 Bioethics, and acknowledged 5 within the Conservative 4 community as an expert 5 decisor of Jewish 7 law.
		Dorff was ordained 4 as a rabbi from 2 the Jewish Theological Seminary 3 in 1970.
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	Case Western Reserve University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rabbi Elliot Dorff is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
		Dorff implicitly acknowledges this difficulty, but he chooses not to deal with it because that would be counter to the goal of this book.
		Dorff does mention other approaches within the Jewish world, and he is scrupulously honest about his own position, never giving the impression that there is but one viewpoint in Judaism, and constantly explaining his own position.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Love_Your_Neighbor.htm (1323 words)

	Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elliot Dorff was ordained a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1970 and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1971 with a dissertation in moral theory.
		Rabbi Dorff is a member of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and of the editorial committee of the new Torah commentary for the Conservative Movement.
		He serves as Co-Chair of the Priest-Rabbi Dialogue sponsored by the Los Angeles Archdiocese and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, and he is a Vice-President of the Academy for Jewish, Christian and Muslim Studies.
	www.s2k.org /Bios/Fellows/dorff.html (260 words)

	Jewish Publication Society: Love Your Neighbor and Yourself
		In this, his third JPS book on modern ethics, Elliot Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be -- both as individuals and as members of a community.
		He addresses specific moral issues: privacy, particularly at work and as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex inside and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action.
		Elliot N. Dorff, a Conservative rabbi, is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism.
	www.jewishpub.org /product.php?isbn=0827607598 (191 words)

	Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics [Book Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dorff is on top of both the classical Jewish sources with their modern interpretations and the vast biomedical and legal literature, yet he is epistemically humble.
		Dorff courageously takes this stand against the dominant position of the laity in Conservative Judaism, most of whom follow the current liberal position that abortion is a woman's right, subject to no moral restrictions.
		Dorff argues that the ban on homosexual acts, male or female, should be abrogated on "moral grounds." This is a truly radical position, since Jews have always understood the ancient ban on homosexual acts as scriptural in origin, hence immutable.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9911/reviews/dnovak.html (1918 words)

	Elliot N. Dorff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of ConservativeJudaism, Bioethics, and acknowledged within the Conservative community as anexpert decisor of Jewish law.
		Dorff is a prolific member of the Rabbinical Assembly 'sCommittee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa (opinionpapers and legal rulings) on many aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.
		In the spring of 1993, Dorff served on the ethics committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton 's Health Care Task Force, andin March 1997 and May 1999, he, along with other rabbis, testified on behalf on the Jewish tradition on the subjects of humancloning and stem cell research before the president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
	www.therfcc.org /elliot-n.-dorff-2290.html (358 words)

	Elliot N. Dorff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dorff has written over one hundred articles on Jewish thought, halakha, ethics and bioethics.
		Rabbi Dorff is a prolific member of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa (opinion papers and legal rulings) on all aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.
		In the spring of 1993, Rabbi Dorff served on the ethics committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Task Force, and in March 1997 and May 1999, he testified on behalf on the Jewish tradition on the subjects of human cloning and stem cell research before the president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
	www.explainthis.info /el/elliot-n.-dorff.html (395 words)

	Speaking of Faith \| Marriage, Family, and Divorce
		Rabbi Elliot Dorff is an author and Sol and Anne Dorff Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Bel-Air, California.
		Dorff recalls that until the 1970's in America, except in Nevada, one had to prove his or her partner committed adultery or was insane in order to be granted a divorce.
		As Dorff says, a ritual is involved where the husband hands the divorce documents to his wife and she takes several steps away from him to signify they are leaving each other and the marriage has ended.
	www.speakingoffaith.org /programs/2003/07/25_marriageI (2454 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		In light of that tendency, Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s effort to articulate "a Jewish response" to modern ethical dilemmas is admirable.
		Dorff’s philosophy is grounded in the unquestionable truth of human fallibility.
		As Dorff explains it, the rabbis include those dissenting judgments, because the court may revise the law at some future point in their favor.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=11357 (1781 words)

	Knowing God: Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable - DORFF, ELLIOT N. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With remarkable clarity and inspiring honesty, Rabbi Dorff's exploration results in a vibrant Jewish faith, one that takes due regard for both the emotional and intellectual sides of our being.
		Dorff's own personal quest, artfully woven throughout this spiritually uplifting volume, aids the reader to make his or her own Judaism emotionally satisfying and intellectually sound.
		The result is a Judaism that can be for the modern reader what it is for the author: the product of a love of God "with all one's heart, with all one's soul, and with all one's might." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/she/204.shtml (393 words)

	Alibris: Elliot N. Dorff
		In "Matters of Life and Death," Elliot Dorff addresses the unavoidable confluence of medical technology and Jewish...
		In this, his third book on modern ethics for JPS, Elliot Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community.
		Dorff addresses privacy, particularly at work and as it is affected by the Internet and other modern...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Elliot_N._Dorff (808 words)

	USCJ: CJ/Formulating Jewish Law
		This means that i n deciding what Jewish law should be today, I must, as Solomon Schechter noted long ago, take note not only of what the legal texts say, but of how they have been put into practice by "catholic Israel," by the observant community in the past and present.
		As one who shares that faith, the approach that I use in writing a ruling is one that attempts to combine honesty about the past and present, humility about what we can know of God's will, and passionate commitment to making God's will real in our world.
		Elliot Dorff, Provost and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, was appointed to the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards in December 1984 and has written ten rabbinic rulings that have been adopted by the Committee.
	www.uscj.org /CJFormulating_Jewish5454.html (1852 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s DID YOU KNOW? Responsa: Health Care: It Takes a Hevrah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elliot N. Dorff, "The Jewish Tradition," in Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions, ed.
		Elliot N. Dorff, visiting professor at JTS, and Aaron L. Mackler, assistant professor of theology at Duquesne University, wrote this responsum.
		The full text will appear in a volume edited by Rabbi Mackler entitled Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics, to be published jointly by JTS Press and the Finkelstein Institute.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/diduknow/responsa/hatesh_healthcomm.shtml (3138 words)

	United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
		Editor’s Note: Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is Rector and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism.
		He is also a member of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, which endorsed his responsum -- on which this article is based -- and a Vice President of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles.
		The verse forbidding putting a stumbling block before the blind (Leviticus 19:14) is probably talking in its plain meaning about physically blind people and physical stumbling blocks, but the classical Rabbis applied it also -- indeed, more often -- to intellectual and characterological stumbling blocks put before those who are blind in those areas.
	www.uscj.org /publicaffairs/review/violence.htm (2213 words)

	From MEDIEVALAND MODERN THEORIES OF REVELATION by Elliot N. Dorff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This emphasis on individual autonomy inevitably weakens one's sense of tradition and community; and in practice, it raises serious questions as to whether the Reform community can act as a group, even on such critical questions as intermarrIage.
		Most Orthodox thinkers, at the other end of the spectrum, deny the legitimacy of using the historical method to understand the Torah, arguing that studying the Torah in that way undermines its authority.
		In addition to the existentialists and phenomenologists within this camp are rationalists like David Lieber and Elliot Dorff; the rationalists conceive of revelation as the ongoing human attempts to discover truths about God and the world.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /dorf_rev.htm (1217 words)

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	Elliot N. Dorff Discounts, Elliot N. Dorff Reviews, Ratings and Elliot N. Dorff Sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rabbi Elliot Dorff has lectured widely on medical and bioethics facing moderns: artificial insemination, abortion, adoption, prolonging life artificially, organ donation, and more.
		To Do The Right And The Good: A Jewish Approach To Modern Social Ethics by Conservative Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is an informed and informative examination of the commitment of Judaism to social equality.
		Defining ourselves: A conservative-reform Jewish dialogue between Elliot Dorff and Eugene B. Borowitz
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		By Elliot N. Dorff and Aaron L. Mackler
		Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
		For more on this and related topics, see Elliot N. Dorff, Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics.
	www.shma.com /mar03/Elliot.htm (1112 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In this, his third book on modern ethics, Elliot Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism’s distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community.
		Rabbi Dorff's views on homosexuality within the Jewish tradition are also equally progressive.
		He is a breath of fresh air compared to the hidebound views of some of his rabbinic colleagues in the Conservative movement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0827607598?v=glance (961 words)

	Elliot N. Dorff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		There is a separate article on Conservative responsa.
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	Matters of Life and Death by Elliot N. Dorff 0827606478 - Direct Textbook Details and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Matters of Life and Death Elliot Dorff addresses the unavoidable confluence of medical technology and Jewish law and ethics.
		In this book, he compiles his years of research into a cogent and accessible discussion of Jewish law to provide a profoundly human approach to some of the most difficult aspects of life any of us will ever face.
		The second major part of the book deals with the matters at the end of life: the process of dying, after death issues (such as organ donation).
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0827606478 (383 words)

	USCJ: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
		Today, scientists are especially interested in doing research on embryonic stem cells, which can and do transform themselves into all of the tissues of the body (i.e., they are “pluripotent”).
		In light of our Divine mandate to seek to maintain life and health, I would argue that, from a Jewish perspective, we have a duty to proceed with this research.
		Rabbi Dorff is Provost and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
	www.uscj.org /cgi-bin/viewcontent.pl?Embryonic_Stem_Cell_5809.html (2044 words)

	Shma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We will have to break new ground in formulating a realistic resolution of these issues, one grounded in Jewish sources and principles but one that is also responsive to the new context of medicine in our time.
		Elliot N. Dorff, a Sh’ma Contributing Editor, is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism.
		The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Sh'ma.
	www.shma.com /Ethics/elliot_droff.htm (618 words)

	To Do Right and the Good: Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics:Dorff, Elliot N.:0827607156:eCampus.com
		Rabbi Dorff focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as poverty, war, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness.
		In addition, he discusses Jewish social ethics as they both relate to and contrast with Christian and American belief systems in modern society.
		Dorff argues that Jewish sources, when properly placed within the framework of the realities of our own times, can provide important guidance for Jews on how to act in their daily lives.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0827607156 (144 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Matters of Life and Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catholic and Jewish writers and physicians, in particular, have taken great care to address ethical questions raised by modern medicine and to examine how those ethical questions impinge upon their religious traditions.
		In the book's first section, Dorff summarizes the beliefs underlying Jewish medical ethics?"the body belongs to God," "human worth stems from being created in God's image," "Jews have a mandate and duty to heal," "Jews must sanctify God's name"?to demonstrate their importance for contemporary discussions of Jewish medical ethics.
		Dorff then addresses a number of issues of medical ethics, ranging from infertility and the use of artificial insemination and issues surrounding reproductive technologies to assisted suicide, organ donation and the distribution of health care.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0827606478?v=glance (1119 words)

	A Jewish Experience of Religious Pluralism by Elliot N. Dorff
		I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.A.), a city at that time of about a million inhabitants of whom only 20,000 were Jewish.
		I think that it is no exaggeration to say that interfaith work, with its inherent issues of pluralism, has been a dominant theme of my professional life.
		Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is Professor at the University of Judaism, Bel-Air, California
	www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/what/interreligious/cd34-03.html (1288 words)

	Jewish Publication Society: Matters of Life and Death
		In Matters of Life and Death Elliot Dorff thoroughly addresses this unavoidable confluence of medical technology and Jewish law and ethics.
		Elliott Dorff, a Conservative rabbi, has written and spoken extensively on the subject of Jewish ethics.
		He served for ten years as the co-chair of the Priest-Rabbi Dialogue, sponsored by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
	www.jewishpub.org /product.php?isbn=0827607687 (134 words)

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