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Gordis has written that Hebrew Bible can be interpreted as "an eloquent argument in favor of the ethnic-cultural commonwealth — a precursor of sorts to the modern nation-state — as an indispensable condition for human freedom and self-realization"<ref>Daniel Gordis, [http://azure.org.il/article.php?id=536 The Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood], Azure Online, Spring 5770 / 2010, no. 40, accessed June 15, 2012</ref>, and "advocates not only the concept of ethnic and cultural heterogeneity (expressed here as the “dispersion” of different peoples), but also the formation of political entities that can promote the flourishing of those ethnicities and cultures—what is known today as the nation-state".<ref>Daniel Gordis, [http://azure.org.il/article.php?id=579 The Shape and Meaning of Biblical History], Azure Online, Summer 5771 / 2011, no. 45, accessed June 25, 2012</ref>
 
Gordis has written that Hebrew Bible can be interpreted as "an eloquent argument in favor of the ethnic-cultural commonwealth — a precursor of sorts to the modern nation-state — as an indispensable condition for human freedom and self-realization"<ref>Daniel Gordis, [http://azure.org.il/article.php?id=536 The Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood], Azure Online, Spring 5770 / 2010, no. 40, accessed June 15, 2012</ref>, and "advocates not only the concept of ethnic and cultural heterogeneity (expressed here as the “dispersion” of different peoples), but also the formation of political entities that can promote the flourishing of those ethnicities and cultures—what is known today as the nation-state".<ref>Daniel Gordis, [http://azure.org.il/article.php?id=579 The Shape and Meaning of Biblical History], Azure Online, Summer 5771 / 2011, no. 45, accessed June 25, 2012</ref>
  

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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.

Alan Dershowitz has called him “one of Israel’s most thoughtful observers".[1].

Leonard Fein has described him as “perhaps the single most popular speaker on Israel to American Jewish audiences.”[2]

Activities

His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, The New Republic, Moment, Tikkun, Azure, Commentary, and Conservative Judaism. Gordis also writes a regular column — “A Dose of Nuance” — for the Jerusalem Post.[3].

His book, Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End was awarded the National Jewish Book Award. His next book on Israel, The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness is Actually Its Greatest Strength, will be published in August 2012. His biography of Israel’s sixth Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, will be published in spring 2014.[4]

History

He received his BA from Columbia University, his M.A. and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and his Ph.D from the University of Southern California.[5]

Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, the first rabbinical college on the West Coast of the United States.

In 1998 he emigrated to Israel[6] and worked at the Mandel Foundation in Israel for nine years as vice president and director of its Leadership Institute.

In 2007 he joined the Shalem Center where he is currently senior vice president and the Koret Distinguished Fellow.

Views

The Bible as a political arguments against multiculturalism

Gordis has written that Hebrew Bible can be interpreted as "an eloquent argument in favor of the ethnic-cultural commonwealth — a precursor of sorts to the modern nation-state — as an indispensable condition for human freedom and self-realization"[7], and "advocates not only the concept of ethnic and cultural heterogeneity (expressed here as the “dispersion” of different peoples), but also the formation of political entities that can promote the flourishing of those ethnicities and cultures—what is known today as the nation-state".[8]

He has also argued against the Goldstone report into Israel's 2008-9 bombing of Gaza[9]

Affiliations

Publications

Resources

Notes

  1. About, DanielGordis.org, accessed June 25, 2012
  2. Leonard Fein, Will the Real Daniel Gordis Please Stand Up?, The Jewish Daily Forward, accessed June 25, 2012
  3. About, DanielGordis.org, accessed June 25, 2012
  4. Biography of Menachem Begin, DanielGordis.org, accessed June 25, 2012
  5. Daniel Gordis Biography, Shalem Center, accessed 18 June 2012
  6. About, DanielGordis.org, accessed June 25, 2012
  7. Daniel Gordis, The Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood, Azure Online, Spring 5770 / 2010, no. 40, accessed June 15, 2012
  8. Daniel Gordis, The Shape and Meaning of Biblical History, Azure Online, Summer 5771 / 2011, no. 45, accessed June 25, 2012
  9. Rachel Abrams, Arianna in Israel, The Weekly Standard, accessed June 25, 2012
  10. Daniel Gordis Biography, Shalem Center, accessed 18 June 2012