Home to Stay One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel

by GORDIS, DANIEL

• ISBN13: 9781400049592
• ISBN10: 1400049598
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-28
• Publisher: Crown

Summary

In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis, his wife, and three children moved from Los Angeles to Israel. Their plan was to stay for a year, but that year brought a steady escalation in Jewish-Palestinian tensions. They decided to follow their hearts and make Jerusalem their new permanent home anyway. After arriving in Israel, Gordis began sending e-mails about his family's experiences to friends and family abroad. Those missives--passionate, thoughtful, informative, and beautifully written--were forwarded thousands of times from recipient and eventually found their way to the pages of "The New York Times Magazine. This book tells the story of a family that must reconcile their love of Israel with the horror of living in a country at war. It is a brave plea for hope in a time when the idea of a lasting peace seems elusive at best.

Author Biography

Daniel Gordis is the director of the Mandel Foundation’s Jerusalem Fellows Program. He was previously a vice president at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and dean of its Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He is the author of three previous books: Becoming a Jewish Parent (Harmony, 1999), Does the World Need the Jews? (Scribner, 1997), and God Was Not in the Fire (Scribner, 1995).<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>