Editing Elliot N. Dorff (section)

==Communal activities==
In [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], Dorff is a member of the ''Board of Jewish Family Service'' and has served as its president (2004–2006). From 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the Board of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation Council, co-chairing its task force on Serving the Vulnerable. Since the 1980s he has been a member of the Ethics Committees of [[UCLA Medical Center]] and the Jewish Homes for the Aging. He is co-chairman of the "Priest-Rabbi Dialogue" sponsored by the Los Angeles Archdiocese and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, and he is the former Treasurer and President and current board member of the Academy of Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Studies. He has been Secretary of the Board of the Faithtrust Institute, dedicated to stopping violence against women and children.  He is a past president of three academic societies: The Jewish Law Association, The Jewish Philosophical Association, and the Society for Jewish Ethics and Honorary President of the Jewish Law Association between 2012 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jfsla.org/page.aspx?pid=389 |title=JFS of Los Angeles: Rabbi Elliot Dorff }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/384287/ucla-jewish-studies-center-to-honor-rabbi-elliot-dorff/ |title=UCLA Jewish Studies Center To Honor Rabbi Elliot Dorff |last=Pink |first=Aidan |date=2017-10-03 |website=The Forward |language=en-US}}</ref>