Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, rabbi, and scholar from western Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, studied English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and teaches Jewish thought and theology at St. John's 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. He is a former Harvard Divinity School postdoctoral fellow and the incoming Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. His latest book--Soloveitchik's Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America--was published in the summer of 2023 by the University of Alabama Press.