Modern Jewish Ethics Since 1970

Emily A. Filler is an assistant professor in the Religion Department at Washington and Lee University. Her research focuses on modern Jewish and continental philosophy, political and ethical theory, and classical Jewish texts. She is the coeditor of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. Her publications include “Reading ‘Zionism and its Jewish Critics’ after October 7,” forthcoming in Shofar 2024 and “Can Classical Jewish Sources Make Any Ethical Claims at All?” forthcoming in Journal of Jewish Ethics, 2024.

Mira Wasserman is the Director of the Center for Jewish Ethics and Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of book, Jews, Gentiles, and other Animals: The Talmud after the Humanities which was awarded the Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies, and the forthcoming “‘Halakhah’ and ‘Aggadah’ and What the Talmud is Made of,” in What is the Talmud? edited by Christine Hayes and Jay Harris.

Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Ethics Center; professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Religion, Emory College of Arts and Sciences. He is coauthor of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Judaism, Race, and Ethics: Conversations and Questions. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics.