Dr. Daniel Gordis

 

Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, where he is also a senior fellow. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, Dr. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler Rabbinical School at the University of Judaism, the first rabbinical college on the West Coast of the United States.  Dr. Gordis joined Shalem in 2007 after spending nine years as vice president of the Mandel Foundation in Israel and director of its Leadership Institute.

 

Since moving to Israel in 1998, Dr. Gordis has written and lectured throughout the world on Israeli society and the challenges facing the Jewish state.  His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Moment, Tikkun, and Conservative Judaism.  His latest book, Will Israel Survive?, is forthcoming from Wiley in 2008.  He is presently at work on a volume about 19th and 20th century rabbinic responsa on conversion, which he is writing together with Dr. David Ellenson of the Hebrew Union College.

 

Dr. Gordis received his B.A. from Columbia College, a Masters Degree and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

 

He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Elisheva, and three children.

 

 

Bibliography

 

Books:

 

Will Israel Survive? (Wiley, forthcoming 2008)

 

Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel (Wiley, 2006)

 

Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (Random House, 2003)

 

If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State (Crown/Random House, 2002)

 

Becoming a Jewish Parent: How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children (Random House, 1999)

 

Does the World Need the Jews: Rethinking Chosenness and American Jewish Identity (Scribner, 1997)

 

God Was Not in the Fire: The Search for a Spiritual Judaism (Scribner, 1995)

 

 

Articles:

 

Gentlemen, Bow Your Heads

3 September 2007

 

Disharmonious Society
The New Republic, 12 August 2006

Needing Israel
New York Times Op Ed, April 2002

E-mail from an Anxious State
New York Times Magazine, September 2001

Israel The Eternal Nation
08 September 2006

Leaving Gaza, One Year Later
The Jewish Week, 12 August 2006