Dr. Daniel Gordis

Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College

**Dr. Daniel Gordis** is Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He writes a regular column — “A Dose of Nuance” — for the Jerusalem Post, and is also a regular columnist for Bloomberg View. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and currents in Israel, and a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Dr. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, the first rabbinical college on the West Coast of the United States. Dr. Gordis joined Shalem in 2007 to help found Israel’s first liberal arts college, after spending nine years as vice president of the Mandel Foundation in Israel and director of its Leadership Institute.