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Nachum Amsel

Rabbi Dr. Amsel received his doctorate in Education (E.D.D.) from the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He received his Rabbinic Ordination from Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, as well as a B.A., B.S. and Masters in Education from Yeshiva University.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral and Ethical Issues

Northvale, New Jersey, Jason Aronson Inc., 1994

AMEMEI

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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Values

Jerusalem, Urim Publications, 2015

AMJV

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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living

Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote, PA, 2011

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Dr. Simon Bernfeld

 

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The Foundations of Jewish Ethics

c. KTAV

FOJE

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Dr. Judah David Bleich

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Gerald Blidstein

 

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Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother: Filial Responsibility in Jewish Law

KTAV

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Abraham P. Bloch

Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch was ordained at the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary and consequently became the Rabbi of Temple Petach Tikvah in Crown Heights. He also authored numerous scholarly books such as Day by Day in Jewish History, Midrashic Comments on the Torah, and A Book of Jewish Ethical Concepts.

A Book of Jewish Ethical Concepts: Biblical and Postbiblical

KTAV Publishing House, New York, 1984

BLOCH

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David R. Blumenthal

 

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The Banality of the Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition

Georgetown U. Press

BANAL

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Eugene Borowitz

Eugene B. Borowitz was Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where he taught for over 40 years. For 25 years, he was the editor of Sh’ma, a Journal of Jewish Responsibility, which brought together writers and readers from across the entire spectrum of the Jewish community. He was an award-winning author of numerous books, including Renewing the Covenant: A Postmodern Jewish Theology and The Jewish Moral Virtues, coauthored with Frances Weinman Schwartz.

Eugene B. Borowitz, JPS author, Scholar of Distinction, and former board member is considered the leading Reform Jewish theologian of our time. JPS mourned his death on January 22, 2016 at the age of 91.

Francie Schwartz is a teacher of adult Jewish education and Holocaust studies and the producer of a monthly book discussion program sponsored by New York Kollel. A Chicago native, she received her bachelor of science degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a masters of arts degree in Judaic studies from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband in northern New Jersey.

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The Jewish Moral Virtues

Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1999

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Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah: An Experiment in Decision Making

(Berhman) c. Eugene Borowitz

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Shmuley Boteach

 

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Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith

Shmuley Boteach

BOTEACH

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Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith

Shmuley Boteach

JFE

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Irving M. Bunim

Irving M. Bunim was a businessman, philanthropist and a lay leader of Orthodox Jewry, in particular the Young Israel movement in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1980. As an assistant to Aharon Kotler, he was involved in aspects of Torah dissemination, philanthropy and Holocaust rescue.

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Ethics from Sinai: an eclectic, wide-ranging commentary on Pirke Avoth

Phillipp Feldheim, Inc., 1964-66

SINAI SINAI1 SINAI2 SINAI3

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Dovid Castle

 

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To Live Among Friends

(Feldheim) c. Dovid Castle

CASTLE

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Chofetz Chaim, Chafetz Chaim

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Dr. Abraham Cohen

 

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The Minor Tractates of the Talmud (Massektoth Ketannoth)

Soncino Press, London

DERECH

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Seymour J. Cohen

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S.S. (Samuel S.) Cohon

Samuel S. Cohon was Chair of Jewish Theology at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Prof. Cohen was formerly rabbi of Temple Mizpah. Chicago.

Judaism - A Way of Life. An Introduction to the Basic Ideas of Judaism

Schocken Books, New York SB38

COHON

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Moses Cordovero

 

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The Palm Tree of Deborah

c. Louis Jacobs

CORDOVERO

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Jonathan K. Crane

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Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff (Ph.D, Columbia; Rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University and a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law. He has been awarded four honorary doctoral degrees, and he has chaired four scholarly organizations -- the Jewish Philosophy Association, the Jewish Law Association, the Society of Jewish Ethics, and the Academy of Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Studies. He has served on federal government advisory commissions on health care, sexual ethics, and the ethics of research on human subjects, and he currently serves on the California Advisory Commission on Stem Cell Research. Author of over 200 published articles and twelve books on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, he has edited fourteen other books as well. His books on ethics include Matters of Life and Death (on medical ethics), To Do the Right and the Good (on social ethics), Love Your Neighbor and Yourself (on personal ethics), and The Way Into Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World).

Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Junior Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Center for Ethics at Emory University. He holds degrees from these institutions: AB in International Relations from Wheaton College (Norton, MA), MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana), MPhil in Gandhian Thought from Gujarat Vidyapith (Ahmedabad, India), MA in Hebrew Literature and Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (New York), and PhD in Religion from the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada). He has presented at conferences and taught around the world on themes relating to Judaism and ethics, bioethics, theology, social and political ethics, warfare ethics, interfaith relations, and Gandhian philosophy. Recent publications can be found in The Journal of Law and Religion, AJS Review, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Theology & Sexuality, CCAR Journal, The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, Anasakti Darshan, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. He serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Jewish Ethics and the Editorial Board of the The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. Jonathan K. Crane is the co-editor (with Elliott N. Dorff) of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality.


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Joseph A. Edelheit

 

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The Life of Covenant: The Challenge of Contemporary Judaism

Spertus College c. Spertus College

LOC

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Avrohom Ehrman

 

The Laws of Interpersonal Relationships

c. Mesorah Publications

EHRMAN

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Journey to Virtue: The Laws of interpersonal relationships -- in business, home and society

c. Mesorah Publications

JOURNEY

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Zechariah Fendel

 

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The Ethical Personality

c. Zechariah Fendel

FENDEL

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Marvin Fox

 

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Modern Jewish Ethics

Ohio State Press c. Ohio State Univ.

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Richard A. Freund

 

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Understanding Jewish Ethics

EMTexts c. Richard A. Freund

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Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona

Yonah Gerondi (Rabbenu Yonah) [1200 – C. 1264 CE; others 1180-1263] was a Spanish rabbi, Talmudist and ethicist. His best-known work is Sha'arei Teshuva, a comprehensive work on repentence. He also wrote chiddushim (Talmudic novellae) on a number of tractates, quoted by contemporaries and later authors. He was one of the most prominent opponents of the Rambam's philosophical works. When the attacks on the Rambam's works culminated in a public burning of wagon-loads of Talmud by Christian authorities, Rabbeinu Yonah publicly admitted his error in involving outside players, and gave Rambam a prominent and revered place in his teaching. It is surmised that this turn of events motivated Rabbeinu Yonah to write Sha'arei Teshuva.

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Gates of Repentance: The Principles of Repentance, Motivations for Return, Proper Awareness of Mitzvos, and Achieving Atonement [Sha'arei Teshuva]

Feldheim Publishers, Nanuet, NY, 2014

GATES

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Robert Gibbs

 

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Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibility

c. Princeton Univ Press

WESOR

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Lenn E. Goodman

 

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Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values

Princeton

JHRHV

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Robert Gordis

 

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Jewish Ethics in a Lawless World

c. Robert Gordis

GORLAW

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Simon Greenberg

 

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The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage

c. JTS

GREENBERG

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Norman D. Hirsh

 

Ethics and Human Relationships

Carlton Press c. Norman D. Hirsh

HIRSH

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Peter Joel Hurwitz

 

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Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients

KTAV c. Peter Joel Hurwitz

HURWITZ

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Ronald H. Isaacs

 

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The Jewish Book of Etiquette

Aronson c. Ronald H. Isaacs

ISAACS

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Israel Meir Kagan (aka Chofetz Chaim, Chafetz Chaim)

Known popularly as the Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan (1839-1933) was a Talmudist, rabbi and decisor of Jewish law based in the town of Radin (today Radun', Belarus).

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Ahavath Chesed: The Laws of Charity and Loving Kindness

Feldheim Publishers, Spring Valley, NY, 1967, 1976

AHAVCH

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Concise Book of Mitzvoth

c. Zaks Family and Feldheim

CCCBM

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Sefer Chofetz Chaim

Israel Bookshop c. Aryeh Diana

SEFER

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Joseph Kaminetsky

Joseph Kaminetsky (1911 – March 17, 1999) was an American Orthodox rabbi who became the pioneering first director of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools of North America, based in New York City. He was directly responsible for the establishment of literally hundreds of yeshiva day schools across the United States outside of the New York Metropolitan Area.

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Building Jewish Ethical Character

The Fryer Foundation, An Affiliate of Torah Umesorah, The National Society for Hebrew Day Schools New York, 1975

BUILD

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Menachem Marc Kellner

 

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Contemporary Jewish Ethics

Sanhedrin Press c. Menachem Marc Kellner

KELLNER

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Norman Lamm

Norman Lamm is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, author and Jewish communal leader. He was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University until he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013.

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The Good Society, Jewish Ethics in Action

Viking Press, 1974

GOODSOC

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S.M. Lehrman

Rabbi S.M. (Simon Maurice) Lehrman (1900-1988) was a contributor to the Soncino Books of the Bible series, and was the author of many books, including:

The World of the Midrash
Rabbi Joseph Karo: his life and times
Everyman’s Judaism: essays on Jewish life and practice
A guide to Hanukkah and Purim
The Jewish festivals
Jewish customs and folklore
The Babylonian Talmud: Seder Tohoroth
The twelve prophets: Hebrew text and English translation
The Sabbath hour

The Jewish Design for Living

Shengold Publishers, Inc. New York, 1976

LEHRMAN

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Aaron D Levine

 

Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics

(KTAV) c. Aaron Levine

CASE

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Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

 

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Path of the Just

c. Feldheim

PATH

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Maimonides

 

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Ethical Writings of Maimonides

Dover c. NYU

EWM

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Asher Meir

 

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The Jewish Ethicist: Everyday Ethics for Business and Life

KTAV c. Asher Meir and Busines Ethics Center of Jerusalem

MEIR

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Alan Morinis

Alan Morinis completed his doctorate at Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. A producer of award-winning television and film, he has been a student of the Mussar tradition since 1997, studying under Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr. Alan is the founder and director of the Mussar Institute, an organization that promotes the study of Mussar through study groups, courses, and public talks.

Alan Morinis is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer who has been a leading figure in the contemporary revival of the Mussar movement, a Jewish ethical movement.

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Everyday Holiness: The Path of Mussar

Trumpeter Books, An imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston, 2007

MORINIS

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Louis E. Newman

 

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Past Imperatives: Studies in History and Theory of Jewish Ethics

c. SUNY

PASTIMP

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Susan Niditch

 

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War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence

Oxford c. Susan Niditch

NIDITCH

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Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda

Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda, c. 1050-1120, was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived at Zaragoza, Al-Andalus. He was one of two people now known as Rabbeinu Behaye, the other being Bible commentator Bahya ben Asher.

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Duties of the Heart

Feldheim Publishers, Nanuet, NY, 1996

DUTIES

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Zelig Pliskin

Rabbi Pliskin lives in Jerusalem, and is the director of Aish HaTorah's Counseling Center and a senior lecturer at Aish's Essentials program and the Executive Learning Center. He was ordained at the Telshe Yeshiva in Ohio and holds a degree in Counseling Psychology.

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Love Your Neighbor: You and your fellow man in the light of the Torah

Jerusalem, Yeshivat Aish HaTorah, 1977

PLYN

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Guard Your Tongue

Bnay Yakov c. Zelig Pliskin

PGYT, GUARD

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Fred Rosner and J. David Bleich

Dr. Fred Rosner is Director of the Department of Medicine of the Mount Sinai Services at the Queens Hospital Center and Professor of Medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Judah David Bleich is professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, and is head of its postgraduate institute for the study of Talmudic jurisprudence and family law. Among his published works are: Jewish Bioethics; With Perfect Faith: Foundations of Jewish Belief; Contemporary Halakhic Problems (five volumes); Time of Death in Jewish Law; Judaism and Healing; and Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective (two volumes), as well as the Hebrew-language Be-Netivot ha-Halakhah. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at the Hastings Center. He is a fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy and a member of the Governor's Commission on Life and the Law.

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Jewish Bioethics

Sanhedrin Press, New York, NY, 1979

ROSNER-BLEICH, JEWBIO

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Danya Ruttenberg

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Jonathan Sacks

An international religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author and respected moral voice, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was awarded the 2016 Templeton Prize in recognition of his “exceptional contributions to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.” Described by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales as “a light unto this nation” and by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as “an intellectual giant”, Rabbi Sacks is a frequent and sought-after contributor to radio, television and the press both in Britain and around the world.

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Essay on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

Maggid Books & The Orthodox Union, 2016

SACKS

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Yisrael Salanter

 

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Ohr Yisrael: The Classic Writings of Rav Yisrael Salanter and his Disciple Rav Yitzchak Blazer

Feldheim c. Zvi Miller

OHRYIS

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Francie Schwartz

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Yom Tov Schwartz

 

Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust

Urim c. Yom Tov Schwartz

EYES

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Byron Lee Sherwin

(Co-author) Rabbi Byron Lee Sherwin (February 18, 1946 – May 22, 2015) was a Jewish scholar and author with expertise in theology, inter-religious dialogue, mysticism and Jewish ethics. He served for over thirty years as professor of Jewish philosophy and mysticism at Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies (now called Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership - AJL).

(Co-author) Dr. Seymour J. Cohen (1922-2001) opened up to English readers the previously little-known genre of medieval Jewish ethical literature through his masterful translations of three of its classics: The Ways of the Righteous, The Book of the Righteous, and The Holy Letter. Rabbi Cohen served as president of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America.

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How to be a Jew: Ethical Teachings of Judaism

Jason Aronson, Inc., Northvale, New Jersey, 1992

HTBAJ

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Shraga Silverstein

Rabbi Shraga Silverstein graduated from Brooklyn College summa cum laude, with honors in English. He was also an alumnus of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin. He taught in universities in the United States and Israel and served as Principal of various yeshivas.

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Shubert Spero

Shubert Spero (PhD Case Western Reserve University) is an ordained Orthodox rabbi who recently retired as Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University, having occupied that chair since moving to Israel in 1983 from the United States. He has served as the spiritual leader of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio (1950-1983), and has been a major voice of modern Orthodox Judaism. He taught philosophy at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Case Western Reserve University, during much of that period. He is the author of God in All Seasons (1967), Morality, Halacha and the Jewish Tradition (1983), Holocaust and the Return to Zion: A Study in Jewish Philosophy of History (2000), Aspects of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik’s Philosophy of Judaism (2009), and numerous essays in philosophical journals.

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Morality, Halakha and the Jewish Tradition

KTAV Publishing House, Yeshiva University Press, New York, 1983

SPERO

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Meir Tamari

 

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With All Your Possessions: Jewish Ethics and Economic Life

Free Press c. MacMillan

TAMARI

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Joseph Telushkin

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is a spiritual leader and scholar, and the author of 15 books, including Jewish Literacy and The Book of Jewish Values. He is also a senior associate of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; a board member of the Jewish Book Council; and the rabbi of the Los Angeles–based Synagogue for the Performing Arts. He lives in New York City and lectures regularly throughout the United States.

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A Code of Jewish Ethics Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy

Bell Tower, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2006

TELVOL1

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A Code of Jewish Ethics Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Bell Tower, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2009

TELVOL2

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David A. Teutsch

Rabbi David A. Teutsch is a longtime professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served as president for a decade and then became director of its Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish ethics.

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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living

Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote, PA, 2011

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Organizational Ethics and Economic Justice

RRC Press c. David Teutsch

TEUTSCHEO

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Albert Vorspan

 

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Jewish Values & Social Crisis: A Casebook for Social Action

c. UAHC

VORSPN

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Shaul Wagschal

Rabbi Shaul Wagschal (1924-2012)

Derech Eretz: A Torah Guide to Proper Behavior in Everyday Life

The Judaica Press, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, 1993, 2012

WAGS

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