Ari L. Goldman

Ari L. Goldman (born September 22, 1949) is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and a former reporter for The New York Times.

Ari L. Goldman
Ari L. Goldman on December 11, 2009, speaking at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
Born (1949-09-22) September 22, 1949
Hartford, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYeshiva University
Occupationjournalist, professor, author

Early life and education

Goldman attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.[1] 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.

Personal life

Professor Goldman and his wife Shira Dicker live in New York City and are the parents of three children. He is the father of the journalist Adam Joachim (A.J.) Goldmann. Goldman is the nephew of Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm. He is a Modern Orthodox Jew.[2]

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

References
  1. Goldman, Ari L. "Yeshivas Defy The Odds", The New York Times, January 5, 1992. Accessed October 23, 2010.
  2. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-search-for-god-at-harvard-by-ari-l-goldman-7892%5B%5D
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