Philosopher
Elliot N. Dorff
Overview
Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is an American Conservative rabbi. He is a visiting professor of law at UCLA School of Law, a distinguished professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in California (where he is also rector), an author, and a bioethicist.
Dorff is recognized as an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism and Jewish bioethics, and he is acknowledged as a leading authority on Halakha (Jewish law) within the Conservative community. Dorff was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1970. He earned his BA and PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1971. He has been awarded four honorary doctoral degrees—from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Gratz College, Hebrew Union College, and American Jewish University—and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journal of Law and Religion.
Dorff is the chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), as well as the author of many responsa on various aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.
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Ideas Elliot N. Dorff discusses
- Belief
- Philosophy
- Halakha
- Jewish philosophy
- Los Angeles
- Personal god
- Philosophy of religion
- Knowledge
- Reform Judaism
- Revelation
- Jewish ethics
- Hastings Center for Bioethics
- Oxford University Press
- Columbia University
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Epistemology
- American Jewish University
- Jewish medical ethics
Place in the tradition
Part of Fundamentalism.