Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor. He is currently an editorial director at ''

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'' primarily covering health and science. Previously, he was an editor at ''

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''. and before that served as senior editor at ''

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'', where he covered science, health, technology and culture. Wolfson has contributed to

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, and the

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, and has appeared on

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and other media outlets. Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood,

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, and

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. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the

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. He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar

Elliot Wolfson Elliot R. Wolfson (born November 23, 1956) is a scholar of Jewish studies. Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies ...

. In 2013, he married the Indian-American writer and board member of the

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, Jas Johl. The two separated in 2017. In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice. In 2015, he was awarded an

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Fellowship, and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground. In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between

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and access to

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in developing countries. In 2016, his ''Newsweek'' cover story investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish

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school system of New York. The story sparked protests.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfson, Elijah Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male journalists UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni People from Ridgewood, New Jersey People from Manhattan