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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.

Amusing anti-Semitic Nutjob Letter of the Day

By Jeffrey Goldberg
Jul 14 2008, 5:28 PM ET Comment

This one in reference to my story on brain research. I'm withholding the name of my correspondent because I feel like it:

Why is it that I have to endure hearing about a person's frickin'
Jewism every time I hear a story from a Jew,be it on TV or in
print? Is it an inferiority complex? class envy? cronyism? a
Holocaust pity party? I mean, when was the last time you heard a
Catholic or a German or any other person integrate their religion
and/or nationality with their telling of a story? I can't think of
a last time.

Now, Jeffrey,I know you've been indoctrinated to write me off, and
any other person who scrutinizes your Jewism,as being anti-Semitic
but,if you did, that would be wrong. If you did, I would have to
conclude that the problem is more of your ethnocentrism than my
anti-Semitism.

And,if you ever come to Denver,you're apt to see me on the street
corners with my large sign telling passers-by that we need to get
American money the hell out of Israel and let the Marxist Jews go
it alone before their liberalism causes another world war.I get an
ever-increasing number of thumbs-up.


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