Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and studied English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A former contributor to the Books & Arts section of The Weekly Standard and a current Washington Examiner contributing writer, he is the author of Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema and the novel A Single Life. In 2021-22 he is serving as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Systematic Theology at the University of Salzburg. His next book--Soloveitchik's Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America--will be published in 2023 by the University of Alabama Press.