1. Daniel Gordis is an American-born Israeli author.
20 Facts About Daniel Gordis
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Daniel Gordis is Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem, where he previously was Senior Vice President and Chair of the Core Curriculum.
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Daniel Gordis has received the National Jewish Book Award twice, including Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn.
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Daniel Gordis was born on July 5,1959, in New York City, and was raised in Baltimore where he attended public high school.
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Daniel Gordis's father was Leon Gordis, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
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Daniel Gordis's mother, Hadassah Gordis, was a clinical social worker.
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Daniel Gordis's grandfather was Rabbi Robert Gordis, a noted biblical scholar and one of the leaders of the Conservative Movement.
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Daniel Gordis's uncle was Professor Gerson D Cohen, who served as Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Daniel Gordis himself was once recognized as a leading Conservative rabbi, but is no longer publicly associated with that movement.
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Daniel Gordis earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1981.
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Daniel Gordis then received a master's degree and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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Daniel Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, the first rabbinical school on the West Coast of the United States.
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Daniel Gordis joined the Shalem Center in 2007 as Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College.
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In 2007, after nine years as vice president of the Mandel Foundation and director of its Leadership Institute, Daniel Gordis joined the Shalem Center to join the team founding Israel's first liberal arts college.
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Daniel Gordis has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Moment, Tikkun, the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz and Conservative Judaism.
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Daniel Gordis was a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post, for which he wrote a regular column called "A Dose of Nuance" until 2019, and for Bloomberg View until 2021.
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Daniel Gordis has been publishing his own column about five times a week via Substack, called Israel from the Inside, since May 2021.
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In 2016, Daniel Gordis won the Jewish Book of the Year from the Jewish Book Council for Israel: A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn.
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Daniel Gordis has extended this assessment to rabbinical seminaries and their students.
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Daniel Gordis participated in the documentary film Indestructible about a man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in which he discussed theological explanations for human suffering.