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 current contributor to the Washington Examiner, 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 will be a research scholar at the University of Salzburg in Austria.