Content by Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD
Jonathan K. Crane, PhD, Rabbi, is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Center for Ethics at Emory University, where he is also an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Religion. While fascinated in the ways we reason through ethical conundrums, he focuses on issues relevant to the contemporary moment. He writes broadly in the fields of Jewish ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, and most recently in food ethics. He is currently working to develop a Food Studies and Ethics program at Emory, the first of its kind.
Understanding Ethics from the Inside: A Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD
Rabbi Mitelman and Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD, discuss the tough ethical decisions we currently face in public health and other areas, and how Judaism can help enlighten us about them.
Jewish Ethics in COVID-19
Since none are beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, whatever is thought about it, including bioethical thinking about it, is necessarily being done from within it.
Adam’s Folly
The echo of Adam’s profound failure reverberates today. It is heard in white supremacy, in the common and conscious unwillingness of whites to acknowledge historical facts and truths.
Judaism, Race, and Ethics
Since they have diametrically opposed impacts on society, it is virtually unintelligible to link religion and race. However much this may be so, it would be ill advised to consider them radically disconnected or as always operating as opposing forces.
The Billion-Year-Old Golden Rule of Symbiosis
Although the origin of the Golden Rule may lie thousands of years in the past, there is another variant of the rule, even more ancient, that needs our attention.