Mark Oppenheimer is an American author.
Oppenheimer is the executive editor of Arc Magazine , an online journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. [1] He is the former Beliefs columnist for The New York Times , and has contributed to numerous magazines, including The Nation , Mother Jones , The New Republic , Tablet , [2] and The New York Times Magazine . [3] He was the editor at large of Tablet magazine. [4] He co-founded the podcast Unorthodox and co-hosted it from 2015 to 2023. [5]
Oppenheimer is a Jew, who regularly attends a conservative synagogue. [6] He was born and grew up in a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts. [7] He studied at Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Yale. [3] He is married and has five children. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. [8]