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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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A Little Talmudical Exegesis on Jones's Jewish Joke

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Apr 27 2010, 4:32 PM ET Comment

Goldblog reader Jeffrey Bergman writes:
Not a bad joke at all.  Because the thirsty man is identified as a Talib, an enemy of the U.S., and presumably an anti-Semite on top of it, the Jewish brothers are clever and righteous.  If the thirsty man had been a Christian (as I suspect he was the first time the General heard the joke), then the Jews would have been cruel and greedy (as well as clever), and I wouldn't be laughing.  Would you?
 
But yes, please give General Jones a break.  No one is hiring him as a comedian -- let's worry about how he does his day job.
 


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