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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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An Anti-Circus Reader Writes

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Mar 25 2009, 7:33 AM ET Comment

I have to hand it to the anti-circus people; they have a way with words. Here is a letter from one Jan Karpel:

Mr. Goldberg,

As a Jewish woman, I'm astounded at your lack of intelligence, let alone insight.  You expected your children to see the elephants abused at Feld's Ringling Brothers show?  How stupid can you be?  I'd advise you instead to have them gather round and watch many of the videos showing elephants routinely beaten with bullhooks.

So, what would you say of a Jew who routinely chains elephants 22 hours a day. Elephants who walk 50 to 60 miles a day in their natural habitat!   Magnificent, intelligent beings who care for their young tenderly, mourn their dead, and have social matriarchies just as Jews do?...Next time, Mr. Goldberg, don't be a lazy Jew who spouts opinions rather than facts.  Do some homework.  I hope you are a better father than a writer.



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