Daniel Gordis

Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center.  Professor Alan Dershowitz has called him "one of Israel's most thoughtful observers." His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Moment, Tikkun, Azure,  and Commentary Magazine. His latest book, Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End was published by Wiley in March 2009, and was subsequently awarded the 2009 National Jewish Book Award.  His next book, co-authored with Dr. David Ellenson of the Hebrew Union College, is e

‘WHAT SEPARATES American Jews and Israel is, well, everything... [yet] we ought to celebrate those differences, not bemoan them.’

Liberal Jews and their anti-democratic, anti-liberal critique of Israel

A CHILD salutes the American flag.

A dose of nuance: Dual loyalty’s deep roots

U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Tree of Life Synagogue Rabbi Jeffrey Myers as they stand at a makeshift memorial to the victims outside the synagogue where a gunman killed eleven people and wounded six during a mass shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 30, 2018.

A Dose of Nuance: IfNotNow’s Trump-channeling manifesto


Remember when truth mattered? From Salazar to Trump, lying is the norm

As the Talmud in Tractate Shabbat so famously says, ‘Truth is God’s own seal.’ And it should be ours, as well.

Reporters with various forms of ‘fake news,’ 1894 illustration by Frederick Burr Opper

A Dose of Nuance: Now it’s our turn to save Israel

Like most of our immigrant friends, we have not a shred of regret about having come. It was the best decision we made in our entire lives.

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The Nation-State Law and Israel’s challenge

Netanyahu has now proven that not only is he not that person – he is almost precisely the opposite.

DRUZE RALLY with other Israelis in protest of the Jewish Nation- State Law, in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on August 4, 2018

A Dose of Nuance: If American Jewish progressives really seek change...

It is that utter lack of interest in what actually interests the citizens of Israel that has to change.

HAMAS CHIEF Ismail Haniyeh shakes hands with a boy during a protest at the Gaza border on April 9, 2018

ANALYSIS: Can Abbas revive Israel’s Left?

A real opposition is critical to a functioning democracy worth its name – but Israel hasn’t had one in almost 18 years.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during the Palestinian National Council meeting in Ramallah

A DOSE OF NUANCE: Quo vadis, Judaism?

Roth loved to hold a mirror up to the dysfunction and cultural ambivalences of American Jews.

MICHAEL CHABON at a book signing at in 2006

Nahal Oz considers evacuating

Moshe Dayan

The universalist impulse and Israel's being

A PALESTINIAN boy is carried as he looks at the scene of an Israeli air strike, south of Gaza City, March 2018

Shall we deny that the Poles are deniers?

The Poles want to rewrite another portion of Jewish history.

SURVIVORS AND guests walk past the barracks at Auschwitz, during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

A dose of nuance: Israel-bashing by analogy

‘Intersectionality’ in the American progressive world, in which all liberal causes are intertwined and one has to buy into all in order to have a voice about any.

A PROTESTER holds a sign up during a #MeToo demonstration outside Trump International Hotel in New York City, December 2017