Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg
Goldberg with President Obama at the Oval Office, 2014
Born	Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (1965-09-22) September 22, 1965 (age 51) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Journalist, writer, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, New York, The New Yorker, New York Book Review, The Forward, The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Slate
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Pamela Ress Reeves (m. 1993)
Children	3
Awards	National Magazine Award, Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award
Website	Jeffrey Goldberg's personal website

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 22, 1965) is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. During his nine years at The Atlantic prior to becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affairs. He has won many awards and written eleven cover stories for the magazine.

Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ellen and Daniel Goldberg, who he describes as "very left-wing." He grew up in suburban Malverne on Long Island, where he recalled being one of the few Jews in a largely Irish-American area. During his first trip to Israel as "a powerless 13-year-old boy suffering at the hands of Irish pogromists, juvenile pogromists," he found the Jewish empowerment embodied by Israeli soldiers exciting, "So, I became deeply enamored of Israel because of that."

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian. While at Penn he worked at the Hillel kitchen serving lunch to students. He left college to move to Israel, where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a prison guard during the First Intifada at Ktzi'ot Prison, a prison camp set up to hold arrested Palestinian participants in the uprising. There he met Rafiq Hijazi, a Palestine Liberation Organization leader, college math teacher and devout Muslim from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, whom Goldberg describes as "the only Palestinian I could find in Ketziot who understood the moral justification for Zionism".

Goldberg lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Pamela (née Ress) Reeves, and their three children.

Goldberg returned to the United States and began his career at The Washington Post, where he was a police reporter. While in Israel, he worked as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and upon his return to the US served as the New York bureau chief of The Forward, a contributing editor at New York magazine, and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. In October 2000, Goldberg joined The New Yorker.