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Samuel G. Freedman |
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Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has authored six nonfiction books, including most recently Who She Was, a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young Journalist. Freedman has also won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000 in the Non-Fiction category for Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry., and his book The Inheritance was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Additionally, he currently writes The New York Times column "On Religion" and The Jerusalem Post column "In the Diaspora."
Born on October 3, 1955 in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, Freedman was raised in Highland Park, New Jersey, along with his younger brother and sister. His father, David Freedman co-founded the biotech company New Brunswick Scientific (now a subsidiary of Eppendorf), and his mother, Eleanor (née Hatkin) was the subject of his book,...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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Waging a One-Man War on American Muslims - — During the mid-1990s, after hearing about the harassment of gay students, the principal of Largo High School in Florida created a support group for them. Over the next year or two, the meetings also drew sympathetic friends, evolving into a club called the Gay Straight Alliance. |
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