Daniel Gordis
Autor von Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
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Daniel Gordis is director of the Mandel Foundation's Jerusalem Fellows Program. He was formerly dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
Bildnachweis: Daniel Gordis, 2018 By Dmitry Rozhkov - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69745829
Werke von Daniel Gordis
Does the World Need the Jews?: Rethinking Chosenness and American Jewish Identity (1997) 71 Exemplare
Becoming a Jewish Parent: How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children (1999) 60 Exemplare
The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength (2012) 32 Exemplare
Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams? (2023) 27 Exemplare
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa (2012) 22 Exemplare
Celebrating Our Uniqueness: Am Kadosh 2 Exemplare
Becoming a Jewish Parent 1 Exemplar
Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (2010) 1 Exemplar
God Was Not in the Fire 1 Exemplar
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Scary stuff when you hear orthodox rabbis make statements that reform Jews are worse than holocaust deniers, wicked son, or destroying Judaism. Shocking to hear that weddings and conversions done by non-orthodox rabbis are not recognized by the state!
The schism between American Jews and Israeli is not about what Israel dose but who is Israel. Is it really the center of world Jewry? In 1960 the Israeli Knesset found the Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann and wanted to try him in Israel. American Jews were outraged—they wanted him tried in an International tribune. Why should Israel speak for all Jews?
There was an unfounded theory by Zionists that Jews in America were in exile. That they should be returning to Israel despite all the freedoms and opportunity that America offered.
I was shocked about General Patton being antisemitic. That surely wasn’t addressed in the Oscar winning film in the 1970’s.
Gordis proposes various solutions to heal the wounds between American Jews and Israeli. Some of the proposals are standard. Comparing the riff to divorce and that a temporary separation might work. Of course, trying to understand the other side is always a good fall back plan.
Anytime you have a complex issue there are no easy resolutions but it’s important for American Jews to understand the issues.… (mehr)