Dr Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center. The author of ten published books - with another scheduled for publication in 2014 - he writes the regular column 'A Dose of Nuance' for the Jerusalem Post and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Commentary and other journals in print and online. A recent 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. He moved to Israel from the US in 1998 and lectures around the world. His two most recent acclaimed books are The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength and Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End.