To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics

by Elliot N. Dorff and Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

Book Overview

A National Jewish Book Award Winner

Rabbi Dorff focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as poverty, war, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness. In addition, he discusses Jewish social ethics as they both relate to and contrast with Christian and American belief systems in modern society. Dorff argues that Jewish sources, when properly placed within the framework of the realities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827607741
• ISBN13: 9780827607743
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A highly recommended look at human motivations

To Do The Right And The Good: A Jewish Approach To Modern Social Ethics by Conservative Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff is an informed and informative examination of the commitment of Judaism to social equality. From the ethics of war and international intervention, to looking at the social problem of poverty from a Jewish point of view, to pluralism within the Jewish community itself, To Do The Right And The Good is a thought-provoking and highly recommended look at human motivations, what it means to be Jewish, and the necessity of holding oneself to an ethical standard worthy of the Torah.