Elliot N. Dorff, a Conservative rabbi, is Rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy at the University of Judaism. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary, and he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, with a dissertation in moral theory. He has written over 150 articles on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, and many books, including three JPS volumes - Matters of Life and Death, To Do the Right and the Good, and Love Your Neighbor and Yourself. Dorff is co-editor of Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary and of the upcoming JPS series Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices.