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Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor. [1] He is currently an editorial director at Time primarily covering health and science. [2] Previously, he was an editor at Quartz . [3] [4] [5] and before that served as senior editor at Newsweek , [6] where he covered science, health, technology and culture. [7] [8] [9] Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic, [10] [11] Al Jazeera America, [12] [13] Vice, [14] and the Huffington Post, [15] [16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News, [17] NPR and other media outlets. [18]

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. [19] [20] [21] He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley. The pair separated in 2018; they remain artistic collaborators.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice. [22] In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship, [23] and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground. [24] In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship [25] and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries. [26]

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story [27] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York. [28] [29] The story sparked protests. [30] [31] [32] [33]

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