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- 6 European countries join forces to do business with Iran (and throw Israel under the bus)
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- "Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort"
- "Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities is only way US will be able to negotiate better deal with Islamic Republic"
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Tag Archives: Daniel Gordis
Gordis at Yom Kippur in Israel: “There was not a person, whether we were singing or silent, who was not wondering— “What is going to be here? What is going to happen to us?”
ISRAEL FROM THE INSIDE “We sought healing, we sought mercy, we sought repentance, we demanded redemption— and there is none” Daniel Gordis October 13, 2024 …The next day, when we got to U-netaneh Tokef (“Who shall live, who shall die … Continue reading
A recently published book offers a new take on a pivotal battle and an intentional mistruth that changed the course of history forever
DANIEL GORDIS BLOG “The Massacre That Never Was” January 10, 2022 …A new book by Eliezer Tauber, a former dean at Bar Ilan University and an expert on the formation of Arab nationalism, has taken on the Deir Yassin story … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Daniel Gordis, Deir Yassin, Palestinians
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Gordis: “Even in recent days, well into the second week of this war, Israelis were proving exceedingly resilient”
DANIEL GORDIS SUBSTACK What if there’s never going to be peace? by Daniel Gordis May 20, 2021 …The books and the highway exits and the soldiers and the calendar and the language and the love of the land – it’s … Continue reading
“Beinart is a smart guy; he knows that for his readers to buy his thesis, it is important that they not know very much”
TIMES OF ISRAEL End the Jewish State? Let’s try some honesty, first by Daniel Gordis July 8, 2020 …About what do we [Peter Beinart and myself] agree? I share Peter’s deep frustration over the plight of Palestinian Arabs. I, too, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Daniel Gordis, Peter Beinart, Two State Solution
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Gordis: “Why are so many of us – rabbis, backpackers, politicians, with their recklessness during a pandemic – willing to endanger the extraordinary Jewish life we’ve built here?”
TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘We will guard and protect you’: Our forgotten promise to Israel by Daniel Gordis March 23, 2020 Twenty-something years ago, after a year’s sabbatical in Israel, when we had decided that we were going to stay and … Continue reading
“In his new book, ‘We Stand Divided,’ Daniel Gordis examines the deep roots of the growing rift between American and Israeli Jews”
TABLET MAGAZINE Between Two Promised Lands by Ari Blaff September 24, 2019 …In the book [We Stand Divided]’s most stimulating and provocative chapter, Gordis presents American and Israeli conceptions of democracy as being fundamentally at odds. In the U.S., politics … Continue reading
If Gantz “becomes prime minister, American Jews will have some cause to celebrate”
NEW YORK TIMES Benny Gantz Can’t Heal the Rift Between U.S. Jews and Israel by Daniel Gordis September 23, 2019 …But contrary to conventional wisdom, I believe that any new Israeli prime minister might ultimately make matters worse between Israel … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Daniel Gordis
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American progressive’s “utter lack of interest in what actually interests the citizens of Israel has to change”
JERUSALEM POST If American Jewish Progressives Really Seek Change by Daniel Gordis July 18, 2018 …In May, Israeli troops killed several dozen Palestinians, many of them young, at the Gaza border fence. It was a tragic day, but aside from … Continue reading
Israel’s Supreme Court says no to exempting ultra-Orthodox from military service
BLOOMBERG Court Forces Israel to Face Its Ultra-Orthodox Problem by Daniel Gordis September 14, 2017 When Israel’s Supreme Court ruled this week that a law exempting ultra-Orthodox young men from military service is unconstitutional, it did more than pose yet another political … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Daniel Gordis, Haredi, Israeli Supreme Court
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“Driving on Shabbat, eating out, gay marriage and more: For more than half a century, the Conservative movement has been…just a movement that can’t say no”
FORWARD The Conservative Movement Will Inevitably Cave On Intermarriage by Daniel Gordis June 21, 2017 …No less saddening, though, was the fact that glaringly missing from Schonfeld’s column is any mention of the next dramatic change that obviously lies just … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish
Tagged Conservative Jews, Conservative Movement, Daniel Gordis, Intermarriage, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld
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