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).