Daniel Gordis Quotes & Sayings

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility. — Daniel Gordis

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. — Daniel Gordis

Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't. — Daniel Gordis

Dayan and Eshkol were against taking the Golan Heights from the Syrians. Syrian troops, they both insisted, had thus far made no effort to cross the northern border, and both feared that extending the war to the north would provide the Soviets with an excuse to intervene. But others disagreed. On June 8, David Elazar (commander of Israel's northern front) went to Eshkol to try to convince him to take the Golan. — Daniel Gordis

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong. — Daniel Gordis