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Gorenberg was born in Saint Louis and grew up in California.
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Gershom Gorenberg
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Gorenberg graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz and earned his Master of Arts
Career
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."
In 1977, he traveled to Israel to study and ultimately decided to immigrate to the country, becoming an American-Israeli dual citizen. in education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Foreign many years Gorenberg served as an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report, an Israeli biweekly news magazine.
Gorenberg is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, 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, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Also a published author, Gorenberg is best known for his 2006 study on the origins of Israeli settlements in Israeli-occupied territories following the 1967 Six-Day War, 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. In 2011, Gorenberg published The Unmaking of Israel, in which he decries the settler movement and how government support for the haredi is undermining Israeli democracy.
Gorenberg blogs at South Jerusalem together with Haim Watzman.
He is a frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv, particularly in discussions related to Israel. Gorenberg was an associate of the now-defunct Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.
