Rabbi Daniel Gordis
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Rabbi Daniel Gordis is the director of the Mandel Foundation's Jerusalem Fellows Program. He was previously a vice president at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and dean of its Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He is the author of If a Place Can Make You Cry (Crown 2002), Becoming a Jewish Parent (Harmony, 1999), Does the World Need the Jews? (Scribner, 1997) and God Was Not in the Fire (Scribner, 1995).

In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to live in Jerusalem permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation of Israelis to grow up in peace.

Blog Entries by Rabbi Daniel Gordis

In the Tent, or Out: That is Still the J-Street Question

Posted May 29, 2011 | 13:07:01 (EST)

On May 3rd, Daniel Gordis addressed the "J-Street Leadership Mission to Israel and Palestine." The following column is based on his remarks that day.

Good morning and welcome to Jerusalem. It's a pleasure to meet with this Leadership Mission; I understand that there are some first time visitors to Israel...

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Facebook Meets the Flotilla

Posted May 31, 2010 | 19:29:30 (EST)

An old high school friend, who's taken great exception to a couple of my most recent Jerusalem Post columns, has been telling me of late on my Facebook page how out of touch with American Jewry I am. He let loose again today. Here's what he had to say:

Hey...
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