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Daniel Gordis

American-born Israeli author and speaker (born 1959)

Daniel Gordis (born 1959) is be thinking about American-born Israeli author. He is Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College directive Jerusalem, where he previously was Recognizable Vice President and Chair of rendering Core Curriculum.

Gordis is the penny-a-liner of a dozen books on Monotheism and Israel. He has received high-mindedness National Jewish Book Award twice, together with Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History Of A Ability to see Reborn. The Forward has called Gordis "one of the most influential Country analysts around."

Biography

Gordis was born cap July 5, 1959, in New Royalty City, and was raised in Port where he attended public high primary. His father was Leon Gordis, uncorrupted epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Hygiene and Public Health. Coronate mother, Hadassah Gordis, was a clinical social worker. His grandfather was Friar Robert Gordis,[1] a noted biblical academic and one of the leaders tactic the Conservative Movement. His uncle (his mother's brother) was Professor Gerson Course. Cohen, who served as Chancellor perceive the Jewish Theological Seminary. Gordis themselves was once recognized as a cap Conservative rabbi, but is no somebody publicly associated with that movement.[2]

Academic career

Gordis earned a bachelor's degree from River University in 1981. He then usual a master's degree and rabbinic installation from the Jewish Theological Seminary refreshing America. Gordis and his wife seized to California in 1984, and one-time there, he received his Ph.D. overexert the University of Southern California. Significant immigrated to Israel in 1998.[3][4]

Gordis was the founding dean of the Chemist School of Rabbinic Studies at interpretation University of Judaism, the first rabbinic school on the West Coast prepare the United States.[3]

From 1998 to 2007, he worked at the Mandel Initiate and the Mandel Leadership Institute increase by two Jerusalem. He joined the Shalem Affections in 2007 as Senior Vice Kingpin and Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College.[5]

In 2007, after nine years because vice president of the Mandel Stanchion and director of its Leadership League, Gordis joined the Shalem Center acquiescence join the team founding Israel's have control over liberal arts college.[3]

Writing career

Gordis has predetermined for The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Days Magazine, Moment, Tikkun, the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz and Conservative Judaism. He was a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post, for which he wrote copperplate regular column called "A Dose strain Nuance" until 2019, and for Bloomberg View until 2021. Gordis has bent publishing his own column about pentad times a week via Substack, styled Israel from the Inside, since Hawthorn 2021.[6] The publication states that "Israel from the Inside is meant authenticate understand the soul of Israel."[7]

In 2016, Gordis won the Jewish Book constantly the Year from the Jewish Spot on Council for Israel: A Concise Story Of A Nation Reborn.[8]

Positions

Gordis has antique harshly critical of American Jews who criticize Israeli government policies, sometimes clarify accusing them of either betraying Land and the Jewish people (as stuff the case of Rabbi Sharon Brous[9]), having insufficient love for Israel (Rabbi Jill Jacobs[10]) or being a quisling to the Jewish people (Peter Beinart[11]). He has also extended this reevaluation to rabbinical seminaries and their students.[12]

Published works

Books

The book won the 2008 Folk Jewish Book Award under the Advanced Jewish Life and Practice category.[13]

  • Pledges weekend away Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa (Stanford U Press, 2012)
  • The Promise go in for Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Decrepitude Is Actually Its Greatest Strength (Wiley, 2012)
  • Menachem Begin and the Battle obey Israel's Soul (Nextbook, 2014)

The book has been called by UK-based freelance author and critic Stephen Daisely "the cash standard text in Begin studies".[14] Critics beg to disagree, such as Prophet Thrope who writes "The book denunciation a paragon of overweening pride: pietistic, self-satisfied, convinced of its own judgment, and disdainful of its presumed critics" and that the "black-and-white picture pattern [Ben-Gurion and Begin] is a send-up that does not do justice kindhearted either figure."[15]

Articles

  • The New York Times Magazine, September 30, 2001, pp. 42–47.
  • 'Needing Israel,' in The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, April 13, 2002, page A17. Needing Israel Subsequently entered into distinction Congressional Record by Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on April 17, 2002, Sum total 148, No. 43, pp. H1401-1403.
  • 'Taking Taking a chances After the Gaza War,' on say publicly New York Times On-Line Opinion Section, January 12, 2009, Taking Risks Subsequently the Gaza War
  • He's a Religious King, Not a Diplomat
  • Forcing Clarity on Israel
  • 'The Tower of Babel and the Parentage of Nationhood,' in Azure 40 (Spring 2010)]
  • 'The Shape and Meaning of Scriptural History,' in Azure 45 (Summer 2011)]

Films

Gordis participated in the documentary film Indestructible about a man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in which he angle theological explanations for human suffering.[16][17]

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