J.J. Goldberg will be the guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m., where he will offer the talk “Election 2016: The Stakes for the Jewish Community & Israel.”
Goldberg is editor-at-large of “The Forward,” where he served as editor-in-chief for seven years.
He has served in the past as U.S. bureau chief of the Israeli news magazine Jerusalem Report, managing editor of The Jewish Week of New York, as a nationally syndicated columnist in Jewish weeklies, as editor-in-chief of the Labor Zionist monthly Jewish Frontier, as world/national news editor of the daily Home News, now the Home News Tribune, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and as a metro/police-beat reporter for Hamevaker, a short-lived Hebrew-language newsweekly published for the Israeli émigré community in Los Angeles.
Goldberg is the author of “Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment,” published in 1996.
His previous books include “Builders and Dreamers” and “The Jewish Americans.”
He earned a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1985 and a B.A. in Jewish studies and Islamic studies at McGill University in 1972.
Before entering journalism, Goldberg lived and worked in Israel through much of the 1970s.
He served as an education specialist at the World Zionist Organization and was a member of the founding Gar’in, settlement group, of Kibbutz Gezer, near Tel Aviv, where he served a term as the kibbutz secretary-general.
He has worked in the past as a taxi driver in New York City, a Jewish communal worker in Los Angeles and a construction laborer in Israel.
Goldberg’s talk is preceded by a brief service.
Following his talk, there will be a Q&A, and refreshments will be served.
All members of the community are invited to attend. Admission is free.
Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.
For further information, call (516) 482-5701.
Editor talk on impact of election on Israel
