Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg is an American-born Israeli journalist and historian specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics. He is currently a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, 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.

Gorenberg graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned his MA in education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem, with his wife, journalist Myra Noveck, and three children. Gorenberg is now a senior correspondent forThe American Prospect.

As an author, Gorenberg is best known for The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (2006), a study of the origins of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories following the 1967 Six-Day War. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount was published in 2000. Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Gorenberg blogs at South Jerusalem, together with Haim Watzman. He was a frequent guest on Bloggingheads.tv, particularly in discussions related to Israel. Gorenberg was an associate of the now-closed Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.