Ari Goldman spent 20 years as a reporter for The New York Times before leaving the newspaper in 1993 to join the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. For most of his career at The Times, Mr. Goldman wrote about religion, with a special emphasis on Judaism and how it relates to other faiths. Among the stories he covered for The Times were the 1991 Black-Jewish riots in Crown Heights, the visits of Pope John Paul II to the United States and the scandals of the television evangelists. Mr. Goldman is also the author of the best-selling memoir, The Search for God at Harvard (Random House, 1991), which is an account of a year he spent at Harvard Divinity School while on a leave of absence from The Times. Mr. Goldman’s book, Being Jewish was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2000. The book is a reporter’s look at contemporary Jewish religious practice, in all its variations and inconsistencies. His new book Living A Year Of Kaddish to be published by Schocken in late August explores the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning following his father’s death. Ari Goldman was born in Hartford, Conn., and was educated in Jewish Day Schools there and in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1997-98, Mr. Goldman was a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Mr. Goldman serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Covenant Foundation, the New York Jewish Week and the Jewish Book Council. He is also the vice president of his New York congregation, Ramath Orah. Mr. Goldman lives with his wife, Shira Dicker, and their three children on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.