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Daniel Gordis , born July 5, 1959, in New York City 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. Gordis joined Shalem in 2007 to help found Israel’s first liberal arts college, 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 The New Republic , The New York Times Magazine , Moment , Tikkun , and Conservative Judaism . He is presently at work on a volume about 19th- and 20th-century rabbinic responsa on conversion, which he is writing together with Rabbi David Ellenson of the Hebrew Union College, and another volume on Zionism and its contribution to international discourse on ethnicity and the nation-state. Gordis received his B.A. from Columbia College (magna cum laude), a master's degree and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California .¹

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Daniel Gordis (born 1959) is an American author and speaker, whom the Jerusalem Post listed as one of the fifty most influential Jews in the world. He lives in Israel and is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem, where he is also Chair of the Core Curriculum. The author of a dozen books on Judaism and Israel, he was once recognized as a leading Conservative rabbi, but is no longer publicly associated with that movement. Slightly left of center when he arrived in Israel in 1998, his writings suggest a gradual move to the right. Most people now consider him a moderate conservative.

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Daniel Gordis, 2018 Daniel Gordis (born 1959) is an American-born Israeli author and speaker. He is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem , where he is also Chair of the Core Curriculum. The author of a dozen books on Judaism and Israel , and twice awarded the National Jewish Book Award (including Book of the Year for his history of Israel ), he was once recognized as a leading Conservative rabbi, but is no longer publicly associated with that movement. Slightly left of center when he arrived in Israel in 1998, his writings suggest a gradual move to the right. Most people now consider him a moderate conservative .

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American-born Israeli author and speaker (born 1959) Daniel Gordis (born 1959) is an American-born Israeli author and speaker, who is best known as a passionate advocate of Israel. He is Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem , where he previously also served as Senior Vice President and Chair of the Core Curriculum, until his retirement from those positions. The author of a dozen books on Judaism and Israel , and twice awarded the National Jewish Book Award (including Book of the Year for his history of Israel ), The Forward has called Gordis "one of the most influential Israel analysts around." Gordis is also the author of the blog and podcast, Israel from the Inside , which is published on Substack.

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American-born Israeli author and speaker (born 1959) Daniel Gordis ( Hebrew : דניאל גורדיס ; born 1959) is an American-born Israeli author. He is Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem , where he previously was Senior Vice President and Chair of the Core Curriculum. Gordis is the author of a dozen books on Judaism and Israel . A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn . The Forward has called Gordis "one of the most influential Israel analysts around."

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