*Gordis, Daniel: - Daniel Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College--Israel's first liberal arts college--which he helped found in 2007. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, he has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, including the pr...

*Gordis, Daniel: - Daniel Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College--Israel's first liberal arts college--which he helped found in 2007. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, he has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, including the prize for Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn *. Raised and educated in the United States, he has been living in Jerusalem since 1998.