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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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A Pro-"Happy Holidays" Manifesto

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Dec 12 2008, 9:25 AM ET Comment

Reader David Grossman (not that David Grossman) writes to say that I'm not thinking about the children:

I completely sympathize with the mother who asked her school to pull "Rudolph". You seem quick to blame it on the parents, but what about the kid? I remember growing up absolutely hating the wide reach of Christmas in our society, feeling left out and forgotten. While it's true that "Rudolph" was writing by a Jewish writer, I highly doubt that anyone involved in the whole kerfuffle is remotely aware of that. I'm not saying we have to force people to eat Chinese food and go to the movies (I've got my options trimmed down to The Wrestler and Gran Torino, by the way), but when we're all in the public sphere, let's not exclude anybody. "Happy Holidays" is a harmless way to include Christians, Jews, Muslims and -- gasp -- atheists.
By the way, for all you non-MOTs out there who might be wondering, all Jewish people eat Chinese food and go to the movies on Christmas eve, or Christmas day, or both. Every single one of us. Those of you with genocidal intent, by the way, should take this into consideration when making your plans.



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