Gershom Gorenberg
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Gershom Gorenberg is an American
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-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics. He is currently a senior correspondent for The American Prospect
The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics...

, a monthly American political magazine. Gorenberg self-identifies as "a left-wing, skeptical Orthodox Zionist Jew."

Early life and education

Gorenberg was born in St. Louis and grew up in California
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. In 1977, he traveled to Israel to study and ultimately decided to immigrate to the country, becoming an American-Israeli dual citizen.

Gorenberg graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and earned his M.A. in education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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. He currently lives in Jerusalem, Israel
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 with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck, and three children.

Career

For many years Gorenberg served as an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report
The Jerusalem Report
The Jerusalem Report is a biweekly print and online newsmagazine that covers political and social issues in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world...

,
an Israeli biweekly news magazine. In 1996, he edited a selected collection of Jerusalem Report essays published under the title "Seventy Facets: A Commentary on the Torah from the Pages from the Jerusalem Report," and co-authored the Jerusalem Report's biography of Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
' was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....

, Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin. Gorenberg is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect
The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics...

, an American political monthly.

Gorenberg has contributed features and commentary on politics, religion and aspects of Israeli-American relations to major American newspapers including The New York Times
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, Los Angeles Times
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, and The Washington Post
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.

Also a published author, Gorenberg is best known for his 2006 study on the origins of Israeli settlements in Israeli-occupied territories
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 following the 1967 Six-Day War
Six-Day War
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, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977.
In 2000 he published The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.

Gorenberg blogs at South Jerualem together with Haim Watzman
Haim Watzman
Haim Watzman , is an American-born, Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator.Watzman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. After receiving a B.A. from Duke University, Watzman made aliyah to Israel, where he has lived since 1978 and worked as a freelance...

. He is a frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv
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, particularly in discussions related to Israel.

Gorenberg was an associate of the now-defunct Center for Millennial Studies
Center for Millennial Studies
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 at Boston University
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.

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