| Ari L. Goldman | |
|---|---|
 Ari L. Goldman in 2021 | |
| Born | (1949-09-22) September 22, 1949 (age 75) Hartford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| 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.
Early life and education
Goldman attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 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.
Goldman is a founding board member of Shtetl, 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
- Goldman, Ari L. "Yeshivas Defy The Odds", The New York Times, January 5, 1992. Accessed October 23, 2010.
- Hajdenberg, Jackie (2022-11-30). "A 'haredi free press' grows in Brooklyn, igniting both excitement and resentment". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- "« 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.
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
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