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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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J Street: Political Sophistry or Pro-Israel Advocacy?

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Oct 20 2009, 1:58 PM ET Comment

Goldblog reader David Sobel writes in response to the continuing J Street brouhaha:
Amy Spitalnick's claim that "The very reason for J Street's existence is to secure Israel's future as a Jewish democracy" does not convince.  What do defending Seven Jewish Children or Obama's rewarding of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson have to do with supporting Israeli democracy? And why can't J-Street find the time to publicly rebuke Stephen Walt's endorsement, even as its constituents repeatedly criticize AIPAC? J-Street is confusing political sophistry for pro-Israel advocacy. Until J-Street stops making excuses for not taking on Israel's defamers, statements about Israeli democracy sound like bromides to anybody on the right of Yossi Beilin. AIPAC, warts and all, is undoubtedly for Israel. Right now it seems that J Street is for J Street.


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