Goldman is a tenured professor at Columbia, where he directs the Scripps Howard Program on Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. The program has enabled him to take his "Covering Religion" seminar on study tours of Israel, Ireland, Italy, Russia and India. His former students have gone on to be religion writers at such papers as the
Chicago Tribune, the
Miami Herald,
The Baltimore Sun and the
Raleigh News & Observer. Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at
Oxford University in
England and a scholar-in-residence at
Stern College for Women. Goldman is a founding faculty member of the
School of the New York Times, a high school program that started in 2016. He has also been a lecturer for Times Journeys. Goldman is a founding board member of
Shtetl, a media outlet covering the
Haredi Jewish community that launched in 2023. == Personal life ==