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Michael B. Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein; May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009-2013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party.〔("Michael Oren appointed to US envoy role" ), ''Jerusalem Post'', May 2, 2009〕 Oren has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the ''New York Times'' best-selling ''Power, Faith and Fantasy'' and ''Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East'', which won the ''Los Angeles Times'' History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities in the United States and at Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities in Israel. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to ''The New Republic''. ''The Forward'' named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews and ''The Jerusalem Post'' listed him as one of the world’s ten most influential Jews. Oren retired as ambassador to the United States in 2013, replaced by Ron Dermer.〔 In the 2015 Israeli election, Oren was elected to the Knesset for the centrist Kulanu party. His newest book ''Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide'' was published by Random House on June 23, 2015.〔(www.breitbart.com 06/10/2015 )〕 ==Personal life and background== Oren was born Michael Scott Bornstein in upstate New York, the son of Marilyn (née Goldstein), a marriage and family therapist, and Lester Milton Bornstein, a hospital director.〔Ginsberg, Johanna. ("Former New Jerseyan to be Israel's Envoy to U.S.; Author Michael Oren was Mountain High and Princeton grad" ), ''New Jersey Jewish News'', May 7, 2009. Accessed November 19, 2012.〕 His father was an officer in the U.S. Army who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and participated in the Korean War.〔("Enjoying Every Minute" ), ''Haaretz'' 〕 Oren grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, in a Conservative Jewish household, where he attended West Orange High School.〔〔Bumiller, Elisabeth. ("Israeli Diplomat Is Man in Middle" ), ''New York Times'', September 17, 2012. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Raised in a conservative Jewish family in West Orange, N.J., Mr. Oren worked on a kibbutz at 15, was educated at Princeton and Columbia, immigrated to Israel and spent multiple tours in the Israeli Army...."〕 As the only Jewish boy in a heavily Catholic neighborhood, he says he experienced antisemitism. In his youth, he was an activist in Zionist and Jewish youth groups such as United Synagogue Youth. A meeting with then–Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yitzhak Rabin, strengthened Oren's decision to move to Israel.〔("Commemoration of Prime Minister Rabin's z"l 90th Birthday" ), Embassy of Israel, February 29, 2012〕 Reading about Rabin sparked Oren's interest in the Israeli ambassadorship to Washington, a post he would eventually attain.〔 Oren won two gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in rowing, a sport in which he is still active.〔(C-SPAN Transcript of 2002 Interview with Michael Oren )〕 At age 15, he made his first trip to Israel with youth movement Habonim Dror, working on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel.〔 In 1973, Oren won first prize in the PBS National Young Filmmaker’s contest for the film, ''Comrades in Arms'', which he wrote and directed. In the summer of 1976, he worked as gofer for Orson Welles. In 1977, Oren completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia College. He continued his studies at Columbia, receiving a Masters in International Affairs in 1978 from the School of International and Public Affairs, where he was an International Fellow and a DACOR Fellow.〔(Michael Oren's Profile on WritersReps.com )〕 After college, he spent a year as an adviser to the Israeli delegation to the United Nations.〔 In 1979, Oren emigrated to Israel.〔("An interview with Michael Oren" ), ''The Jerusalem Post'', January 18, 2007.〕 A few years later, Oren returned to the United States to continue his education, studying at Princeton University. In 1986, he earned an MA and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton.〔(''Princeton Weekly Bulletin'', November 18, 2002 )〕 In 1982, he married Sally Edelstein, who had been born in San Francisco and had immigrated to Israel in 1981. They have three children.〔http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/37999/israels-new-ambassador-to-u.s.-has-strong-s.f.-ties1/〕〔(Ambassador Michael Oren Biography )〕 In a popular article by Jeffrey Goldberg, ''The Atlantic'' profiled Sally's acquaintance with rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane, which wrote two songs about her in the 1960s.〔(''Six Degrees of Sally Oren'',''The Atlantic'', February 20, 2013 )〕 Oren's nephew is comedian Jon Rudnitsky.〔http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Mazel-Tov-MK-Michael-Oren-congratulates-nephew-on-joining-cast-of-SNL-415297〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Oren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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