Ari L. Goldman

Ari L. Goldman
Ari L. Goldman on December 11 2009 speaking at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
Born	1949 (age 74–75) Hartford, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yeshiva University
Occupation(s)	journalist, professor, author

Ari L. Goldman (born 1949 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a 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 is a graduate of Yeshiva University.

Career

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

Personal life

Professor Goldman lives in New York with his wife and their three children.

Religion

He 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)

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