The Jerusalem Post has just released its list of the world's 50 most influential Jews, and Goldblog comes in at number 35. I am focusing not on the people ahead of me (Zuckerberg, Netanyahu, other such ephemeral figures) but on the people I beat out for the crucial thirty-fifth slot, including the Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and Natalie Portman.
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Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.