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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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Hope for Henry

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Oct 28 2008, 5:57 PM ET Comment

Because of a technical glitch (namely, me), the following short film, about an incredibly brave kid named Henry Strongin Goldberg, fell off this blog last week. So I'm posting it again. Watch it. It's important. Henry, who died six years ago, at the age of seven, lives on in the work of his parents, Laurie Strongin and Allen Goldberg (who is not related to me except in the we're-all-brothers sense of related). Their Hope for Henry Foundation is dedicated to bettering the lives of seriously ill children. Our mutual friend, John Donvan, made this great film:





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