Daniel Gordis

Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center and a writer on Zionism, national identity, currents in Israel, Jewish identity in Israel and the Diaspora and biblical political thought.

Affiliations

• Shalem Center

Publications

• Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law and Policy-Making in 19th and 20th Century Orthodox Responsa, with David Ellenson (Stanford University Press, 2012)
• Saving Israel: How the Jewish State Can Win a War That May Never End (Wiley, 2009)
• 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) – Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award
• 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)