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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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Arresting a Woman for Praying (Cont'd)

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Nov 19 2009, 10:41 AM ET Comment

Goldblog reader Jeffrey Bergman writes:
I read the same article in Ha'aretz yesterday, and had the same disbelieving, angry reaction that you apparently did.  So here's my question -- do you think that either the Israeli government, or Israelis in general (most of whom, I know, really don't get or care about American-style "progressive Judaism") understand how bad this looks to many American Jews?
No. I'm overgeneralizing here, but Israelis have never been very good at understanding how they appear to the outside world. I don't think they care very much, to tell you the truth. If they did, they wouldn't allow their police to arrest Jewish women for wearing prayer shawls. 


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