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[[Image:goldman200.jpg|right]] '''Ari L. Goldman''' is a journalist and currently a professor at the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] along with his colleague and friend, [[Samuel G. Freedman]]. He is the author of three Judaic-related books which are ''Living A Year of Kaddish'', ''The Search for God at Harvard'', and his most recent book, ''Being Jewish''.

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'''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]].<ref>Goldman, Ari L. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/05/education/yeshivas-defy-the-odds.html "Yeshivas Defy The Odds"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 5, 1992. Accessed October 23, 2010.</ref> He was educated at [[Yeshiva University]], [[Columbia 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 (publication)|Shtetl]]'', a media outlet covering the ''Haredi Jewish'' community that launched in 2023.<ref name="JTA">{{cite news |last1=Hajdenberg |first1=Jackie |title=A ‘haredi free press’ grows in Brooklyn, igniting both excitement and resentment |url=https://www.jta.org/2022/11/30/united-states/yeshiva-education-reform-activist-launching-independent-haredi-news-organization |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=2022-11-30}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Goldman is a Modern Orthodox Jew.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-search-for-god-at-harvard-by-ari-l-goldman-7892 |title=« the Search for God at Harvard, by Ari L. Goldman Commentary Magazine |website=www.commentarymagazine.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723091040/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-search-for-god-at-harvard-by-ari-l-goldman-7892 |archive-date=23 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Books==

* ''The Search for God at Harvard'' (1991)

* ''Being Jewish'' (2000)

* ''Living A Year of Kaddish'' (2003)

* ''The Late Starters Orchestra'' (2014)

==References==

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== External links ==

* [http://www.arigoldman.com 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

* [http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/ Columbia Graduate School of Journalism]

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