Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Power - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827608624 ISBN 13: 9780827608627

Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY, 2009

Synopsis

This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time. How do we use power once we’ve gained it? Is it completely for our individual benefit, or do we use it to help our neighborhoods, or society at-large? What kinds of decisions must CEOs and business owners make regarding suppliers and customers? How should bosses treat workers? Teachers treat students? Parents treat children? Government treats citizens? Power dynamics affect people on a political level, a social level, and a deeply personal level as well. The newest volume in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series examines these dynamics and includes essays by such fine contributors as U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, NBC Universal Television-West Coast President Marc Graboff, and author and scholar James Diamond.

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About the Author

Elliot N. Dorff is the author of three JPS books on Jewish ethics: To Do the Right and the Good, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, and Matters of Life and Death. He is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University of Los Angeles. Dorff serves on a number of national boards and committees dealing with Jewish ethics and is the chairman of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and the director of Judaic Studies at Carleton College, and the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics. He is completing An Introduction to Jewish Ethics, a college textbook.

From the Back Cover

Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices Power

The dynamics of power can affect people on political, social, and deeply personal levels. This newest volume in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series examines these dynamics and asks readers to consider some difficult moral issues: How do we avoid the temptation to use power chiefly for our own advantage? How should bosses treat workers? Teachers treat students? Government treat citizens?

Jews of different ages and life experiences reflect on these and other ethical dilemmas in this cutting-edge new series from JPS. Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices offers a range of traditional and contemporary sources on Jewish attitudes toward power. Listen as rabbis, philanthropists, scholars, and social justice activists weigh in on how Judaism influences their own choices. Intended to promote dialogue, challenge assumptions, and reflect the reality of Jewish life today, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices is for anyone who struggles to lead an ethical life and wonders about the range of informed Jewish responses to controversial questions.

Elliot N. Dorff is the co-editor of Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body and Money, and author of three other JPS books on Jewish ethics: To Do the Right and the Good, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, and Matters of Life and Death. Dorff is the chairman of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and serves on other national boards and committees dealing with Jewish ethics. He is currently Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University of Los Angeles.

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and director of Judaic Studies at Carleton College, the co-editor of Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body and Money, and the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics and An Introduction to Jewish Ethics, a college textbook.

Edition details

• Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827608624
• ISBN 13: 9780827608627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Dorff Rabbi Elliot N., Newman Louis E.