JPost.com - Daniel Gordis Reporter

A Dose of Nuance: Sadly the twain do meet

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:17:11 GMT

Hatred of the Jew – always illogical, often deadly and forever morphing to fit the times – continues, largely unabated.

A DOSE OF NUANCE: There actually is a middle way

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:35:18 GMT

Israelis, sadly, are infinitely more likely to do their share.

A Dose of Nuance: Much more than just nicer

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:19:18 GMT

We have an opportunity to renew that which had always made Israel great – a sense of shared purpose, a belief in shared destiny and a commitment to mutual responsibility.

A Dose of Nuance; From Limmud to Lapid

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:22:56 GMT

Jewish learning for everyone, not just haredim, part of Lapid's 'wind of change'.

Ed Koch and the Jewish underground

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:16:21 GMT

One aspect of the late mayor's life that has eluded commentators is his little-known role in educating American Jews about the role of Menachem Begin and the Irgun Zva’i Leumi.

A dose of nuance

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:12:16 GMT

The letter that Netanyahu should, but won't, send.

A Dose of Nuance: We gave peace a chance

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:15:11 GMT

Our enemies are not fools. But they are consistent.

A dose of Nuance: New Year’s Eve, 2063

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:25:28 GMT

New Year’s Eve 2063. Israel is 115 years old. The Jewish State is much as it was in 2013, only more so.

A Dose of Nuance: Not just France with humous

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:55:59 GMT

What Jewish vision animates your social goals for Israel? If you’ve got nothing to say about that, why should any of us vote for you?

A Dose of Nuance: The day my grandfather cried

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:15:51 GMT

If you’d been born in 1908, you’d never have really known a moment when anyone, anywhere, was inclined just to let the Jews be.

Celebrating our differences

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:43:09 GMT

Author Daniel Gordis explains his newest book, ‘The Promise of Israel.’

A Dose of Nuance: The EU peace prize and Israel

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:50:42 GMT

The decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the EU is a clear attempt to breathe new life into a deeply challenged alliance.

A dose of nuance: On occupation and education

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:58:42 GMT

Is this a place in which our grandchildren will want to live if they have a choice? If the answer to that question is “perhaps not,” it won’t really matter if we can hold our enemies at bay, because the country we’re protecting won’t be worth having in the first place.

A Dose of Nuance: Culture matters, Dr. Erekat

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:50:51 GMT

Was Mr. Romney really a “racist” to point out that Israel’s success is not an accident?

A dose of nuance: Let’s prove Hegel wrong

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:59:48 GMT

Though Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German philosopher, is not known primarily for his humor, he apparently had occasional pithy moments.

At least a few shades of grey

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:07:24 GMT

A dose of nuance: mention Richard Wagner, and you’re told you’ve accused someone of Nazi-grade anti-Semitism.

A Dose of Nuance: Walking away from Alice Walker

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:52:02 GMT

Anti-Semites come and go. Walker is not the first, nor will she be the last.

A country still desperate to believe

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:27:50 GMT

The government must assure citizens it still believes in the principles of Zionism.

A Dose of Nuance: Our hope (for what?) is not yet lost

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:16:20 GMT

It is our right, indeed our responsibility, to remind them that Israel is the fulfillment of a 2,000 year old dream, and a Jewish one at that.

Tell me about the future of the Jews

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:25:37 GMT

A Dose of Nuance: The simple but often overlooked truth is that what has made this difference for Jews world over is the State of Israel.

A Dose of Nuance: Peter Beinart's mis-identity crisis

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:15:49 GMT

Peter Beinart is right. The relationship between American Jews and the Jewish state is indeed in crisis.

A Dose of Nuance: Peter Beinart’s peace-making

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:26:02 GMT

We must be able to articulate that there are things worth fighting for – and yes, killing and dying for.

A dose of Nuance: The masks we wear, and don’t

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:41:01 GMT

Where are we if the smartest, most open Palestinian kids, from the best schools, believe that the Jewish state is going to be a corner of the West Bank?

A Dose of Nuance: ‘Surplus Jews’

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:27:38 GMT

The phrase is used with no hint of embarrassment, no expression of responsibility.

A Dose of Nuance: Prophets and guardians

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:57:43 GMT

Genuinely loving this country means that there will be moments when we defend it and others in which we bemoan its shortcomings.

Before we preach to Israelis living abroad

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:37:34 GMT

Are we so desperately afraid of our external enemies that we’ll support at all costs a government that just watches as the country rots from within?

The danger of dangers

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:08:16 GMT

A Dose of Nuance: Just how similar to 1938 are we, as Jews, in 2011?

A Dose of Nuance: A tale of two funerals

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:21:52 GMT

images of the sea of black – and only black – on the streets of Jerusalem during Rabbi Finkel's funeral ought to be a reminder of how different our world is from the world that Y.L. Peretz.

Guest columnist: A rediscovered abundance of goodness

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:13:35 GMT

A letter to the Prime Minister regarding Schalit's release.

Jokes my grandfather told me

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:50:57 GMT

Position of Conservative Rabbis on Israel is shifting toward anti-Zionism.

Guest columnist: Nowhere to run

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:58:26 GMT

There is a simple and inexplicable power to being home. It makes you no safer, and it may, in fact, make you a target. But choosing a home like that promotes clarity.

The newest avatar of an ancient hatred

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:57:32 GMT

When all is said and done, what has really changed in Europe? Not enough.

Towards a renewed Zionist education

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:34:42 GMT

Without renewed Jewish identity, Jews from the free world will have no reason to consider making a life in Israel.

An image of what might be

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:10:37 GMT

What could our kids make of this country given the right tools? What kind of leaders would they demand, and become?

Is J Street in the tent, or out?

Fri, 27 May 2011 16:44:25 GMT

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

Challenge and responsibility on Yom Ha’atzmaut

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:16:58 GMT

Guest Columnist: Our celebration of Israel’s independence takes place this year under the cloud of an awareness that the Jewish state’s future is tenuous and fragile.

The stories we’re obliged to tell

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:11:07 GMT

The next generation of Jewish leaders will join us not if we beat them into intellectual submission, but if we bequeath to them new memories.

Guest Columnist: Of sermons and strategies

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:09:57 GMT

Far from the Mideast, a new battleground is emerging, and it is going to change the world no less than the events in Egypt, Syria and Libya.

A final Purim thought

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:00 GMT

It’s the ‘nahafoch hu’ of the Book of Esther, a world in which what unfolds is precisely the opposite of what might have been expected.

Moments worth remembering

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:15:31 GMT

Everyone's list is different. Mine includes Rabin’s assassination, and a conversation with one of my shul’s founders. And now, Mubarak’s fall.

Guest Columnist: Plus ça change

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:28:13 GMT

Over past several weeks, I couldn't help but think back to events of November 1977, when it seemed that everything could be different.

A sudden reminder that values still matter

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:19:39 GMT

Events of the past weeks are stark reminder that US has utterly failed to inculcate its values in this region that needs them.

Decency abhors a vacuum

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:31:39 GMT

It may well be that there is no solution to the conflict in which we are now mired. But that is no reason not to keep trying.

Guest Columnist: The opposition we really need

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:15:23 GMT

Today, an ‘occupation-mantra opposition’ is irrelevant. More than ever, we need people who can partner with those or us worried about our society.

Guest Columnist: No more racist than you or me

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:23:26 GMT

Imagine a national conversation in which we acknowledged the difficult choices that lie ahead, and struggled together with how to make decisions that are Jewish and strategically smart.

The state of the state

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:27:39 GMT

Just beneath the veneer of this start-up nation with its hi-tech firms, and its luxury hotels lies a country plagued by ailing, unsupervised infrastructure.

When expediency becomes principle

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:24:40 GMT

True friends and genuine leaders stand first for what is fair and just.

What matters – and doesn’t – about Natan Zach’s flotilla

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:59:06 GMT

Can we produce a generation of students who debate the ideas at hand, rather than merely seeking to silence those with whom they disagree?

To build or not to build – why it is the question

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:18:55 GMT

The freeze is a metaphor for the legitimacy of the idea of this state as the home of the Jews.

Beloved emblem of a conflicted Israel

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:23:20 GMT

Gilad Schalit, ‘The Jerusalem Post’ person of the year, 5770. In many ways, Gilad Schalit has become a metaphor for Israel, and for Israel’s condition.

The Ground Zero mosque - what US could learn from Israel

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:53:56 GMT

Life in our region has taught us that the first necessary step to defending yourself is acknowledging that someone is out to destroy you.

In praise of shame

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:28:45 GMT

What’s happening to us that we’re producing Abergils and Shapiras (and others) in increasing numbers?

Guest Columnist: Rest in pieces

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:21:42 GMT

Gone is the era when the world understood, even if momentarily, that we, no less than anyone else, deserve a place to be.

Guest Column: The five-state solution

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:38 GMT

Those who argue that the two-state solution will not work are right. It’s more likely that we’ll need five: Hamastan, Fatahland, Palestine, Haredia and Israel.

The storm ahead

Fri, 28 May 2010 15:57:19 GMT

Instead of trying to convince ourselves that it’s not really raining and that there are only a few clouds in the sky, we should be asking a few basic questions on the relationship between Israel and young American Jews

If this is our future

Fri, 07 May 2010 15:37:43 GMT

Conflict with Palestinians only link Brandeis protesters have to Israel.

Will Obama ignite 3rd intifada?

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:07:01 GMT

US president gives those seeking another round of violence a powerful excuse.

Guest Columnist: Settlement whiplash

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:03:13 GMT

In the hopes of injecting some bilateral humility into the discourse, I share two conversations that took place not long ago.

Guest Columnist: Religious Zionism: When crisis becomes oppo

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:14:52 GMT

For the movement to really matter, it must produce the next generation of religious leaders for Israel.

A people at war

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:18:46 GMT

No country at war maintains the same freedoms of speech or action that countries not facing existential threat can permit themselves. Since the Jewish people is at war, it must think as a people at war must think.