Ari L. Goldman is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and a former reporter for The New York Times

The New York Times

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Goldman attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School

Rabbi Jacob Joseph School

The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School is an Orthodox Jewish day school located in Staten Island, New York that serves students from nursery through twelfth grade. The school was founded in 1903 and named in honor of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew...

 on the Lower East Side

Lower East Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...

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Goldman is the director of Columbia's Scripps Howard Program on Religion and Journalism, through which he's traveled with his classes to Israel, Russia

Russia

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 and India

India

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. His former students have gone on to be religion writers at such papers as the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

, The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald

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, The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun

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and the Raleigh News & Observer.

Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at Oxford University in England

England

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 and a scholar-in-residence at Stern College for Women

Stern College for Women

Stern College for Women is the undergraduate women's college of arts and sciences at Yeshiva University. It is located at Yeshiva University's Israel Henry Beren Campus in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan....

. Professor Goldman lives in New York

New York

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with his wife and their three children.

Books

• The Search for God at Harvard (1991)
• Being Jewish (2000)
• Living A Year of Kaddish (2003)

External links

• Official web site
• Ari Goldman: A journalist and a Jew, by URIEL HEILMAN, Jerusalem Post Literary Quarterly, http://info.jpost.com/C003/Supplements/LQ2003/art.09.html