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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.

Poor Mearsheimer Can't Keep His Jews Straight

By Jeffrey Goldberg
May 3 2010, 2:49 PM ET Comment

For a man singularly obsessed with the perfidious Jews, you'd think John Mearsheimer would have the skill to keep his categories correct. For instance, in his latest death-to-Israel speech, he lists Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch as a "Righteous Jew," and Lester Crown, the Chicago businessman and Jewish leader, as a "New Afrikaner." But Anne Herzberg e-mails to report that Susan Crown, Lester's daughter, is on Human Rights Watch's Chicago committee, and that the Crown family foundation is a major donor to Human Rights Watch. So what does this make Lester Crown -- a Righteous Afrikaner? This is the problem with Jews -- so tricky! 

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