Elliot N. Dorff

Conscious capitalism holds that an organization (government, nonprofit or business) has an obligation to act not only in its own best interests, but…

Especially following the acceptance by non-Orthodox movements of homosexual members and clergy, the topic of homosexuality has become a particularly…

As I was growing up I knew no gay people. At least I was not aware of anyone around me who was gay. This was true concerning my classmates in high…

Q Does Judaism support embryonic stem-cell research?- Dani S, New YorkA With the recent announcement of the Obama camp that the US president-elect…

How many children should a Jewish couple have? Although that may seem like a strange question and one that impinges on the private and most intimate…

In the most pivotal moment of Arthur Miller's most famous play, a teenaged boy shows up unannounced in the Boston hotel room occupied by the salesman…

Got a question?Rabbi Jennifer Krause has the answer: Keep asking questions. "I want to help people trust their ability to come up with the answers…

A group of Israeli and US Conservative Rabbis will try to pass a resolution next week at the Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) in…

Forbes magazine may be famed for its annual ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans, but Newsweek is giving that list of high rollers a run for its…

Leaders in the Masorti (Conservative) Movement were split Tuesday on what the local impact would be of the appointment of a new dean to the Jewish…

The most immediate outcome of the debate on the status of the gay-lesbian community in Conservative Judaism, which came to a head in the recent…

When I was a senior in high school and editor of its student newspaper, my English teacher took our staff into Manhattan for a scholastic journalism…

The Conservative movement's central halakhic authority approved three contradictory teshuvot - halachic opinions - on Wednesday regarding…

Doomsayers will argue that Wednesday's Committee of Jewish Law and Standard's decision is the beginning of the end for the Conservative…

The Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel will not be bound by the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards' (CJLS) decision to be made in New York…

A key Conservative Jewish leader is traveling the country to prepare synagogues for a potentially divisive change: The movement will roll back its…