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Daniel Gordis

Daniel Gordis

Daniel Gordis (courtesy) / A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer detains a protestor while clearing a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment after dispersal orders were given at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, on May 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
September 17, 2025, 11:39 am
What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
The writer, scholar, rabbi and sometime activist speaks during this pre-holiday period about the need for the Diaspora to view the warts of the Jewish state and still fight for it all
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Daniel Gordis
Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein-Halevi, Daniel Gordis: 'This is a moment for alarm'
August 20, 2023, 6:18 pm
Diaspora Jews: Time to take a stand
Why world Jewry should support Israel, but not its current government, and ways to do so – beginning with a live webinar with us on September 4, 2023
By Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein Halevi and Daniel Gordis
Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein-Halevi, Daniel Gordis: 'This is a moment for alarm'
February 2, 2023, 12:48 pm
An open letter to Israel’s friends in North America
Diaspora Jews have both the right and the responsibility to speak out against a government that is undermining our society’s cohesion and its democratic ethos
By Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein Halevi and Daniel Gordis
Daniel Gordis
June 12, 2018, 3:30 pm
Daniel Gordis
Yes, singing Hatikva still matters
To abandon the anthem is not to be inclusive, but to destroy the very idea for which Israel exists
Daniel Gordis
July 3, 2017, 1:32 pm
Daniel Gordis
Israelis don’t care that you’re insulted
American Jews should step back from Israeli security concerns, but lean way in when it comes to the matter of peoplehood
Daniel Gordis
July 22, 2014, 8:28 pm
Daniel Gordis
Say thank you – it’s the Jewish thing to do
Absent AIPAC’s work, Israeli citizens would have been butchered these past weeks, and Israeli cities would have gone up in flames. Strangely though, that seems to bother Israel’s alleged supporters who have their issues with AIPAC.
Daniel Gordis
July 11, 2014, 3:34 pm
Daniel Gordis
We have been here before
First, we must win this war. Then, when the dust settles, we must ask ourselves what has happened to us
Daniel Gordis
November 26, 2012, 3:28 pm
Daniel Gordis
On the absence of outrage over attacks from Gaza
To love all of humanity equally is ultimately to love no one
Daniel Gordis
November 18, 2012, 11:35 pm
Daniel Gordis
When balance becomes betrayal
We are utterly abandoned by those who ought to be unabashedly at our side
Israeli college students (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 7, 2012, 1:41 pm
The first Jewish liberal arts college, to save Israel’s soul
The Jewish state needs a Yavneh for our time – a great academy filled with wise men and women who can revitalize Zionist discourse
By Daniel Gordis
Israel is different from other liberal democracies, and that's a good thing. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 2, 2012, 4:00 pm
The case for difference: What really makes Israel great
Instead of defending Israel by focusing on how similar it is to other liberal democracies, we should celebrate the ways in which it is unique
By Daniel Gordis
A conversion to Judaism in a rabbinic court (photo credit: Flash 90)
March 28, 2012, 11:04 am
Embrace the stranger in our midst
Even if we cannot eradicate the complexity of our tradition’s attitude to conversion, we must understand the pain it causes for those who seek to join us
By David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
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