Ari L. Goldman (born September 22, 1949) is an American professor and journalist. He is professor of journalism at

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and a former

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for ''

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''.

Early life and education

Goldman attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the

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. He was educated at

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, Columbia and

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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 ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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'' and the '' Raleigh News & Observer''. Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at

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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. Goldman is a founding board member of ''

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'', a media outlet covering the ''Haredi Jewish'' community that launched in 2023.

Personal life

Goldman is a Modern Orthodox Jew.

Books

* ''The Search for God at Harvard'' (1991) * ''Being Jewish'' (2000) * ''Living A Year of Kaddish'' (2003) * ''The Late Starters Orchestra'' (2014)

References

External links

Official web site
* Ari Goldman: A journalist and a Jew, by URIEL HEILMAN, Jerusalem Post Literary Quarterly, https://web.archive.org/web/20080904214640/http://info.jpost.com/C003/Supplements/LQ2003/art.09.html Columbia University faculty Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty Living people The New York Times journalists Writers from Hartford, Connecticut American Modern Orthodox Jews Rabbi Jacob Joseph School alumni Yeshiva University alumni 1949 births Jewish American academics 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 21st-century American Jews {{US-journalist-1940s-stub