Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice

What health care are the poor and uninsured entitled to-and who pays for it? Is the death penalty morally acceptable? Is affirmative action fair? Who should take the lead in protecting our environment?

Elliot N. Dorff is the author of several books, including To Do the Right and the Good, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, and Matters of Life and Death. He is the chair of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and is currently rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. Danya Ruttenberg is the author of Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion and editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism and Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. She is a contributing editor to Lilith magazine and the academic journal Women and Judaism, and is on the editorial board of the journal Sh'ma and Jewschool.com. Ruttenberg serves as senior Jewish educator at Tufts University.