10 Facts About JJ Goldberg

Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg is editor emeritus of the newspaper The Forward, where he served as editor in chief for seven years.

JJ Goldberg is the author of Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment, published in 1996.

JJ Goldberg was born in New York City and raised in Massapequa, Long Island, until age 13, when he moved with his family to Washington, DC After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School he moved to New York City in the winter of 1967, working in a picture-frame factory.

JJ Goldberg enrolled in McGill University in 1968, after spending a year on the Habonim Workshop at Kibbutz Urim in the Negev.

JJ Goldberg became active in left-wing student Jewish causes nationally in the US and Canada, including the Radical Zionist Alliance and the North American Jewish Students Network, where he was elected to the steering committee in 1970.

JJ Goldberg served as an education specialist at the World Zionist Organization and was a member of the founding Gar'in of Kibbutz Gezer, near Tel Aviv, where he served a term as the kibbutz secretary-general.

JJ Goldberg 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.

In 1972 JJ Goldberg was appointed as director of the American Jewish Congress National Commission on Youth.

JJ Goldberg has served as a member of the central committees of the Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim Federation, the Israel Labor Party Young Guard and Habonim, and was a sharpshooter in the Israel Border Police civil guard.

JJ Goldberg became editor of The Forward in 2000 and left the position in 2007 to write a book.