Books
Dr. Gordis is presently at work on two new books. A volume about 19th and 20th century rabbinic response on conversion, which he is writing together with Rabbi David Ellenson of the Hebrew Union College, is tentatively entitled For the Sake of Heaven: Conversion, Law and Politics in the Modern World of Jewish Orthodoxy. Another book, on Zionism and its contributions to human freedom and vitality worldwide, is tentatively called Israel’s Promise: How Zionism Can Help Preserve the Nation-State and Human Freedom, and is also now being written.
His published books to date are:
- Coming Together, Coming Apart
- If a Place Can Make You Cry
- Home to Stay: One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (Random House, 2003)
- How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the 'Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice' category)
- Becoming a Jewish Parent: How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children (Random House, 1999)
- Does the World Need the Jews: Rethinking Chosenness and American Jewish Identity (Scribner, 1997)
- God Was Not in the Fire: The Search for a Spiritual Judaism (Scribner, 1995)
Articles
- 'E-mail from an Anxious State,' in The New York Times Magazine, September 30, 2001, pp. 42-47. E-mail from an Anxious State
- 'Needing Israel,' in The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, April 13, 2002, page A17. Needing Israel Subsequently entered into the Congressional Record by Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on April 17, 2002, Volume 148, No. 43, pp. H1401-1403.
- 'Taking Risks After the Gaza War,' on the New York Times On-Line Opinion Section, January 12, 2009, Taking Risks After the Gaza War
- 'He’s a Religious Leader, Not a Diplomat,' on the New York Times On-Line Opinion Section, May 13, 2009, He's a Religious Leader, Not a Diplomat
- 'Forcing Clarity on Israel,' on the New York Times On-Line Opinion Section, June 4, 2009, Forcing Clarity on Israel
- 'The Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood,' in Azure, Spring 2010, [1]
Other Works
Daniel Gordis participated in the documentary film
Indestructible, which tells the story of a man suffering from ALS disease,in which he discussed theological explanations for human suffering.