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* Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors To Our Descendants ( Revised Edition ), Elliot N. Dorff, United Synagogue New York, 1996

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The liberalizing responsum, adopted as a majority opinion by 13 of 25 votes, was authored by Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner.

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* Dorff, Elliot N. Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors to Our Descendants ( Revised edition ) United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, 1996

* Elliot N. Dorff, scholar of Jewish ethics and theology, rector of American Jewish University

Elliot N. Dorff ( born 24 June 1943 ) is a Conservative rabbi.

On December 6, 2006, the law committee accepted a paper by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and Avram Reisner on same-sex marriage and ordination of homosexual rabbis, while it upheld the biblical prohibition on male intercourse.

Orthodox rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and Conservative rabbis Neil Gillman and Elliot N. Dorff have also been described as existentialists.

Conservative rabbis Alan Mittleman of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Elliot N. Dorff of American Jewish University also see themselves in the rationalist tradition, as does David Novak of the University of Toronto.

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Leading Conservative ethicists such as the philosopher and rabbi Elliot Dorff have also written extensively on moral theory.

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* Elliot N. Dorff This Is My Beloved: This Is My Friend: A Rabbinic Letter on Intimate Relations, The Rabbinical Assembly, 1996.

Another influential philosopher in the Conservative movement, Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, also bases his views on existentialism, and the works of Franz Rosenzweig.

Some notable figures with these views include Elliot N. Dorff, Michael Strassfeld and David Novak.

* " Judaism and Idolatry: In Defense of Images " by Elliot N. Dorff in " Proceedings of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy " Ed.

The current Chairman of the CJLS is Rabbi Elliot Dorff.

* In December 2006 a majority vote of the CJLS ( 13 members for, 12 against ) accepted a controversial responsum which allows homosexual Jews to become rabbis and cantors, " Homosexuality, Human Dignity, and Halakhah " by Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner.

* Formulating Jewish Law for Our Time, The United Synagogue Review, Dr. Elliot N. Dorff

A later responsum on this subject was written by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, and also accepted by the CJLS.

However, among the classical rabbis, there were a number who refused to treat Christians as idolaters, and consequently regarded food which had been manufactured by them as being kosher ; this detail has been noted and upheld by a number of religious authorities in Conservative Judaism, such as Rabbi Israel Silverman, and Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff.

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Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism, Bioethics, and acknowledged within the Conservative community as an expert decisor of Jewish law.

Dorff was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1970.

Dorff is the chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa ( opinion papers and legal rulings ) on various aspects of Jewish law and philosophy.

Among other topics, Dorff is interested in Jewish philosophy.

As a philosopher, Dorff asks about the difference between belief and knowledge.

In his book, Conservative Judaism: Our Ancestors to Our Descendants, Dorff creates and then explains a chart of various views of revelation and Jewish law, including the mainstream Orthodox approach, four Conservative approaches, and the Reform approach.

In the spring of 1993, Dorff served on the ethics committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Task Force, and in March 1997 and May 1999, he, along with other rabbis, testified on behalf on the Jewish tradition on the subjects of human cloning and stem cell research before the president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission.

Dorff is a fellow of the Hastings Center, a preeminent research institution dedicated to the examination of issues in bioethics.

Dorff has written several anthologies on Jewish ethics and theologies with his co-author, Carleton College religion professor Louis E. Newman.

In addition, Dorff has written responsa adopted by the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards on these and other topics: end-of-life medical issues ; artificial insemination, egg donation, and adoption ; assisted suicide ; donations of ill-gotten gain ; and violent or defamatory video games.

A later responsum of Conservative Judaism was issued by Rabbi Elliott Dorff, who argued, based on precedents in 15th-19th century responsa, that many foods, such as wheat and oil products, which had once been forbidden when produced by non-Jews, were eventually declared kosher ; on this basis he concluded wine and grape products produced by non-Jews would be permissible.

Dorff is currently vice president of publishing for music publisher Theodore Presser Company ; his input has also been sought in the development of leading music notation software.