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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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Muslim Soldiers and the Constitution

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Nov 19 2009, 7:27 AM ET Comment

My friend Seth Lipsky, author of the new book, The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide, tells me that Bryan Fischer and other extremists who want to ban Muslims from service in the American military don't have a constitutional leg to stand on:
The most emphatic single sentence in the entire constitution of the United States is in Article VI:
"  . . . no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States . . ."
The plain language couldn't be more emphatic: " ... no  ... ever ... any ... " One could argue about whether a military post is an "office" or a "public Trust" but my guess is that it easily fits the bill (notary public was the big Supreme Court case on the matter).


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