>https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/276537318
Early life and education
Goldberg is Jewish[2] and was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ellen and Daniel Goldberg,[3] whom he describes as "very left-wing."[4] He grew up in suburban Malverne on Long Island, where he recalled being one of the few Jews in a largely Irish-American area. Retroactively, when describing his first trip to the Israeli state as a teen, Goldberg has claimed that he was "a powerless 13-year-old boy suffering at the hands of Irish pogromists, juvenile pogromists," and that he found the Jewish empowerment embodied by Israeli soldiers exciting, "So, I became deeply enamored of Israel because of that."[4]
He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian.[5] While at Penn he worked at the Hillel kitchen serving lunch to students. He left college to move to Israel, where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a prison guard during the First Intifada at Ktzi'ot Prison, a prison camp set up to hold arrested Palestinian participants in the uprising. There he met Rafiq Hijazi, a Palestine Liberation Organization leader, college math teacher and devout Muslim from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, whom Goldberg describes as "the only Palestinian I could find in Ketziot who understood the moral justification for Zionism".[5]
Goldberg lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Pamela (née Ress) Reeves, and their three children.[3][6]