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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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What Does "Pro-Israel" Mean, Part 97

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Oct 21 2009, 8:20 AM ET Comment

Goldblog reader Menachem Pritzker asks, in reference to J Street:
Are there any other examples of a Washington lobby that knows "better" than the party they're lobbying for?  Would it be possible, say, for a group to lobby for raising the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 25, and doubling tobacco taxes, and still get away with calling themselves a "pro-tobacco lobby?"  Why would they even want to?

It seems ridiculous to me that a group with positions farther to the left than Meretz could position itself as lobbying on behalf of us.  From an Israeli perspective, this whole J-Street episode has been insulting, upsetting, and very confusing.



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