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Source Books

AGTJL
David A. Teutsch, A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living (Reconst. Rabbinical College Press)
AGUS
Jacob B. Agus, The Vision and the Way: An Interpretation of Jewish Ethics (Ungar)
AHAVCH
Chafetz Chayim, Ahavath Chesed: The Laws of Charity and Loving Kindness, Oschry, Leonard, Tr., (Feldheim, 2nd. Ed., 1976)
AMEMEI
Amsel Nachum, The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral and Ethical Issues (Aronson, 1994)
AMJV
Amsel Nachum, Encyclopedia of Jewish Values (Urim)
BANAL
David R. Blumenthal, The Banality of the Good and Evil (Georgetown U. Press)
BLIDSTEIN
Gerald Blidstein, Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother: Filial Responsibility in Jewish Law (KTAV)
BLOCH
Abraham P. Bloch, A Book of Jewish Ethical Concepts: Biblical and Postbiblical (KTAV, 1984)
BOROJMV
Eugene Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz, The Jewish Moral Values (JPS)
BOTEACH
Shmuley Boteach, Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faith (Basic)
BUILD
Kaminetsky (Ed.), Building Jewish Ethical Character (Fryer)
CASE
Aaron Levine, Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics (KTAV)
CASTLE
Dovid Castle, To Live Among Friends (Feldheim)
CCCBM
Chafetz Chayim, Concise Book of Mitzvoth, Eng. adaptation, Wengrov, Chls.,  (Feldheim, 1990) 
CHINUCH
Asher Wasserman, The Concise Sefer HaChinuch, (Feldheim, 2013; Sefer HaChinuch published anonymously in the 16th century, Barcelona.]
CORDOVERO
Moses Cordovero (Louis Jacobs, Tr.), The Palm Tree of Deborah (Sepher-Hermon Press)
COHON
Samuel S. Cohon, Judaism: A Way of Life (Schocken)
DERECH
A. Cohen, Tr., Derek Erez Rabbah in The Minor Tractates of the Talmud (Mas. Ket.) (Soncino)
DORFFBOD
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body (JPS)
DORFFLOV
Elliot N. Dorff, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself (JPS, 2003)
DORFFLPG
Elliot N. Dorff, For the Love of G-d and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law (JPS)
DORFFDRAG
Elliot N. Dorff, To Do the Right and the Good (JPS, 2002)
DORFF-RUTTENBERGSEX
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex, (JPS, 2010)
DORFF-RUTTENBERGSOC
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice, (JPS, 2010)
DORFF-RUTTENBERGWAR
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security, (JPS, 2010)
DORFFWITO
Elliot N. Dorff, The Way Into Tikkun Olam (Jewish Lights)
DUTIES
Haberman, Daniel, Eng. Tr. Duties of the Heart (Vol1&2) (Feldheim, 1996) (Rabbi Bachya ibn Paquda, 1040, Spain).  
EHRMAN
Ahorom Ehrman, The Laws of Interpersonal Relationships (Mesorah)
ETHRESP
Walter S. Wurzberger, Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics (JPS)
EWM
Raymond L. Weiss, Ed., Ethical Writings of Maimonides, (Dover, 1975)
EYES
Yom Tov Schwartz, Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust (Urim)
FENDEL
Zechariah Fendel, The Ethical Personality (Zechariah Fendel)
FOJE
Simon Bernfeld, The Foundations of Jewish Ethics (KTAV)
FOXMJE
Marvin Fox, Ed., Modern Jewish Ethics (Ohio State Press)
FREUND
Richard A. Freund, Understanding Jewish Ethics (EMTexts)
GATES
Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona, The Gates of Repentance (Feldheim)
GOODSOC
Norman Lamm, The Good Society (B'nai Brith Commission on Adult Jewish Ed)
GORLAW
Robert Gordis, Jewish Ethics in a Lawless World (JTS)
GREENBERG
Simon Greenberg, The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage (JTS)
HIRSH
Norman D. Hirsh, Ethics and Human Relationships (Carlton Press)
HTBAJ
Byron L. Sherwin, Seymour J. Cohen, How to be a Jew (Aronson)
HURWITZ
Peter Joel Hurwitz, Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients (KTAV)
ISAACS
Ronald H. Isaacs, The Jewish Book of Etiquette (Aronson)
JHRHV
Lenn E. Goodman, Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values (Princeton)
KELLNER
Menachem Marc Kellner, Contemporary Jewish Ethics, (Sanhedrin Press, 1978)
LEHRMAN
S.M.Lehrman, Jewish Design for Living (Shengold)
LOC
Joseph Edelheit, The Life of Covenant: The Challenge of Contemporary Judaism (Spertus College)
MEIR
Asher Meir, The Jewish Ethicist: Everyday Ethics for Business and Life (KTAV, 2005)
MORINIS
Alan Morinis, Everyday Holiness: The Path of Musar (Trumpeter)
NIDITCH
Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (Oxford)
OHRYIS
Zvi Miller, Tr., Yisrael Salanter, Ohr Yisrael: The Classic Writings (Feldheim)
OXFORD
Elliot Dorff, Jonathan Crane, Eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (Oxford, 2013)
PASTIMP
Louis E. Newman, Past Imperatives: Studies in History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (SUNY Press)
PATH
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Path of the Just (Feldheim)
PGYT
Zelig Pliskin, Guard Your Tongue (Bnay Yakov, 1975)
PLYN
Zelig Pliskin, Love Your Neighbor (Aish HaTorah, 1977)
REFJEW
Eugene Borowitz, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah (Berhman)
ROSNER
Fred Rosner and J. David Bleich, Jewish Bioethics (Sanhedrin Press)
SACKS
Jonathan Sacks, Essay on Ethics (Maggid & The Orthodox Union, 2016)
SACTAB
Mary L. Zamore, Ed., The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic,(CCAR, 2011)
SEFER
Aryeh Diana, Tr., Sefer Chofetz Chaim (Israel Bookshop). (This ed. pub. 2017; original Sefer Chofetz Chaim pub. 1873). 
SHER20C
Byron Sherwin, Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century (Syracuse University)
SINAI1-3
Irving M. Bunim, Ethics from Sinai (3 vols.) (Feldheim)
SPERO
Shubert Spero, Morality, Halakha and the Jewish Tradition (KTAV, 1983)
TAMARI
Meir Tamari, With All Your Possessions: Jewish Ethics and Economic Life (Free Press)
TELVOL1
Joseph Telushkin, A Code of Jewish Ethics: You Shall Be Holy (Vol 1) (Bell Tower)
TELVOL2
Joseph Telushkin, A Code of Jewish Ethics: Love Your Neighbor (Vol 2) (Bell Tower)
TEMIMAH-GEN-DEUT
Boruch Halevi Epstein (Shraga Silverstein, Tr.), The Essential Torah Temimah (Five Volumes) (Feldheim, 1989)
TEUTSCHOE
David Teutscheo, Organizational Ethics and Economic Justice (Recon. Rabbinical College Press)
TZADIK
(Zaloshinsky, Gavriel, Ed., Shagra Silverstein, Tr.), The Ways of the Tzaddikim (Feldheim, 1995) (Anonymous author, pub. 15th century Germany) 
VORSPN
Albert Vorspan, E. Lipman, Jewish Values & Social Crisis: A Casebook for Social Action (UAHC)
WAGS
Shaul Wagschal, Derech Eretz (Judaica Press)
WESOR
Robert Gibbs, Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibility (Princeton)
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