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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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Kevin Youkilis and the Dual-Loyalty Problem

By Jeffrey Goldberg

May 13 2009, 8:43 AM ET Comment

This just in from Goldblog reader John Youkilis:

I have to thank you for mentioning my first cousin once-removed, Kevin Youkilis, in your recent post. Kevin has miraculously converted me into an erstwhile Red Sox fan, a radical departure in light of the abuse I endured as a Reds' fan in October 1975 while a freshman at Brown. I still shrivel at the mention of Carlton Fisk.  I do have an anecdote you might appreciate. In August 2001, my wife, a New Yorker, and our three sons saw Kevin play for the Lowell Spinners against the Brooklyn Cyclones in their fantastic new ballpark near Nathan's. We sat behind two young men wearing kipot who rooted mightily for the Cyclones. I have always respected Kevin's privacy in this celebrity-crazed world but I succumbed to instinct and told them he was Jewish. They switched allegiances instantly.  Unfortunately, my fellow Jews who are Yankee fans have not behaved accordingly. 


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