Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman

Ari L. Goldman has been teaching at the Journalism School since 1993. He is the director of the school’s Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. The Scripps Program has enabled Professor Goldman to take his religion class on study-tours abroad during spring break. In the past, his class has visitedIsrael, Jordan, Russia and Ukraine. Goldman also co-directs the University’s Religion-Journalism Dual M.A. Program in which students spend one year at the Journalism School and a second at Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences studying religion

Before coming to school, he spent 20 years at The New York Times, most of it as a religion writer. Goldman, who was educated at University, Harvard and Columbia, was a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Skirball Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a scholar-in-residence for a semester at Yeshiva.

He is the author of three books: The Search for God at Harvard, a New York Times Notable Book in 1991, Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today (2000) and Living a Year of Kaddish(2003). He frequently contributes articles and reviews to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, The New York Jewish Week and The Forward.

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