On Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 PM Temple B’nai Abraham Annual Bloom Lecture presents Jeffrey Goldberg National Correspondent for The Atlantic. His topic will be The Middle East: Arab Revolution, Iranian Nukes and the Future of Israel.
Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg was Middle East correspondent, and 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 Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
His book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror was named a best-book-of-the-year by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate Magazine, The Progressive, Washingtonian Magazine and Playboy. Goldberg is the recipient of the 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. His work has taken him to Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he lived for a month in a Taliban seminary. He has interviewed leaders of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
This lecture is supported by the Muriel and Bernard Bloom Memorial Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the public. For information please call the temple office at 973.994.2290 or website at www.tbanj.org
