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.