What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.

The field of Jewish ethics is never far from foundational questions about how to do Jewish ethics – and these questions are inseparable from other kinds of scholarly conclusions or prescriptions. In ...

The April 1-2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to deepen the theological foundations of ...

As elected representatives of Vermont, they implicated our state in Israel's atrocities,” one advocate said at a Statehouse press conference Tuesday.

“Be fruitful and multiply” obscures the important ways different people contribute to the future of their communities, write two scholars who have focused on Jewish ethics, family and infertility. As ...

More enlightening than Rabbi Dorff’s conclusions are the paths he takes to arrive at them. The work of the Conservative posek (legal scholar) involves far more than poring over tomes of Jewish law. On ...

The issue now isn’t whether or not to use AI — the genie is already out of the bottle — but how to ensure we use it for good, says Orly Lobel. Will the advent of artificial intelligence usher in a new ...

The Fourth Annual Arthur M. Lucas Medical Ethics lecture, “Prognosis, Truth-telling and Hope: Ethical and Practical Issues,” will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, ...

This was drafted before the latest cease-fire announcement but I don’t feel like letting anyone off the hook. Nothing I’ve said before changed anything, so let me try again. I’ve no doubt that ...

As we enter a new year, the noise of public life grows louder, commentary layered over outrage, opinion edged with mockery, and the easy currency of bombast traded for attention. In moments like these ...

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The annual Jewish calendar is filled with days of joy and celebration, alongside other occasions marked by loss, bereavement, and recognition of national and personal tragedies. An underlying constant ...