https://summaryshelf.app/authors/daniel-gordis/Recent content in Daniel Gordis on SummaryShelfHugoen-usWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/israel/Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/israel/<p>Israel&rsquo;s whole history turns on a single, painful double fact: the state exists because persecution in Europe had made Jewish safety impossible anywhere else, and it was built on land where other people already lived. Hold those two truths together and much of what followed stops looking like a puzzle. A nation founded to end Jewish vulnerability has been at war almost continuously since its birth, and it flourishes and is contested at the very same time. Daniel Gordis traces how that tension was baked in from the start.</p>