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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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'Swimtime for Hitler' -- A Synchronized Satire

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Jun 14 1996, 12:00 PM ET Comment

ATLANTA, JULY 20, 1996 (Associated Press) -- Emotions ran high at poolside today during the finals of the synchronized swimming event, as the four remaining teams in this year's competition, dubbed "Mikvahfest '96" by Olympic organizers, tried to outdo each other in their aquatic interpretations of post-exile Jewish history.

But the competition was overshadowed at times by the notable absence of the Israeli team, which was eliminated in the first round of competition by what was being termed a "cultural inability to synchronize."
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