Ari L. Goldman

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Ari L. Goldman
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Born (1949-09-22) September 22, 1949 (age 74)
Hartford, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yeshiva University
Occupation(s)journalist, professor, author

Ari L. Goldman (born September 22, 1949) is an American professor and journalist. He is professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former reporter for The New York Times .

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Early life and education

Goldman attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [1] He was educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia and Harvard.

Career

Goldman is a tenured professor at Columbia, where he directs the Scripps Howard Program on Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. The program has enabled him to take his "Covering Religion" seminar on study tours of Israel, Ireland, Italy, Russia and India. His former students have gone on to be religion writers at such papers as the Chicago Tribune , the Miami Herald , The Baltimore Sun and the Raleigh News & Observer .

Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at Oxford University in England and a scholar-in-residence at Stern College for Women.

Goldman is a founding faculty member of the School of the New York Times, a high school program that started in 2016. He has also been a lecturer for Times Journeys.

Personal life

Goldman is a Modern Orthodox Jew. [2]

Books

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References

  1. Goldman, Ari L. "Yeshivas Defy The Odds", The New York Times , January 5, 1992. Accessed October 23, 2010.
  2.  the Search for God at Harvard, by Ari L. Goldman Commentary Magazine". www.commentarymagazine.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.