Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff, Rabbi, Ph.D., is Rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.  He is also a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law.  He has chaired both the Jewish Law Association and the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, and he currently chairs the Society of Jewish Ethics and serves as Vice-Chair of the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.  He has also served on three federal government commissions on, respectively, health care, sexual ethics, and the protection of human subjects in research, and he now serves on California's Ethics Advisory Committee for its Embryonic Stem Cell Project.  Author of over 150 articles and eleven books on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, he is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journal of Law and Religion. His book, To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics , was awarded a National Jewish Book Award.