Editing Elliot N. Dorff (section)

{{Short description|American rabbi and scholar}}
'''Elliot N. Dorff''' (born 24 June 1943) is an American [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] [[rabbi]]. He is a visiting professor of law at [[UCLA School of Law]] and Distinguished Professor of Jewish [[theology]] at the [[American Jewish University]] (formerly the [[University of Judaism]]) in [[California]] (where he is also [[Rector (academia)|rector]]), author and a bio-ethicist.<ref>{{cite web |title=UCLA Law Faculty Profiles |url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/elliot-dorff/ |website=law.ucla.edu |access-date=2018-10-09 |archive-date=2018-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009172012/https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/elliot-dorff/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AJU Faculty Profile |url=https://www.aju.edu/faculty/rabbi-elliot-dorff |website=www.aju.edu}}</ref>

Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of [[Conservative Judaism]], [[bioethics]], and acknowledged within the Conservative community as an expert [[posek|decisor]] of [[Halakha|Jewish law]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Hava Tirosh-Samuelson|editor2=Aaron W. Hughes|title=Elliot N. Dorff: In Search of the Good Life: In Search of the Good Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlUMBAAAQBAJ|date=18 July 2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-27902-5}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_030 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=1988 |publisher=New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}</ref> He has been awarded four honorary doctoral degrees—from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Gratz College, Hebrew Union College, and American Jewish University—and he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the ''Journal of Law and Religion.''<ref>{{cite web |title=Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff |url=https://jewishmiami.org/news/extra/dorff_may2_foundation/ |website=Greater Miami Jewish Federation}}</ref>

Dorff is the chairman of the [[Rabbinical Assembly]]'s [[Committee on Jewish Law and Standards]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/story/bios-rabbis-pamela-barmash-and-elliot-dorff | title=Bios: Rabbis Pamela Barmash and Elliot Dorff }}</ref> and has written many [[responsa]] on various aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.