Devorah Goldman
Tikvah Visiting Fellow
Devorah Goldman is EPPC’s Tikvah Visiting Fellow. Her work focuses primarily on medical policy, culture, and public bioethics.
Devorah Goldman is EPPC’s Tikvah Visiting Fellow. Her work focuses primarily on medical policy, culture, and public bioethics.
She is the editorial director of the Krauthammer Fellowship—a one-year program for young writers run by the Tikvah Fund—as well as a contributing editor at The Public Discourse, American Purpose, Mosaic, and the Solomon Journal. She runs a Substack newsletter, Side Effects, which focuses on medical culture.
Ms. Goldman’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BNA, National Affairs, the Weekly Standard, the New Atlantis, and other publications. She previously worked as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Senate and an editor at National Affairs.
Ms. Goldman has also helped spearhead several initiatives at the Tikvah Fund. These include the creation of a curriculum on the role of the Hebrew Bible in American history, which is currently being used as part of a two-year course offered by over 20 Jewish day schools. Together with the Blackstone Legal Fellowship and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, Ms. Goldman developed Tikvah’s summer legal fellowship, which launched in May 2021.
The Political Transformation of Medicine
Devorah Goldman
The revised MCAT includes a section that screens for adherence to progressive orthodoxies.
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Wall Street Journal / April 26, 2022
Bucking the Secularist Storyline
Devorah Goldman
The recently restored 1975 film Hester Street offers a refreshing take on the clash of religion’s dictates with modern life.
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American Purpose / March 8, 2022
The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line
Devorah Goldman
Consolidation is wiping out private practices and making medical care costlier and worse.
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The Wall Street Journal / December 29, 2021
INTERVIEW: Devorah Goldman on Maintaining Faith Amid Modern Malaise
Devorah Goldman
In an interview with Elayne Allen of Public Discourse, EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman speaks about her background, our society’s cultural and political fragmentation, and how Jewish and Christian faith can be a guiding light.
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Public Discourse / December 19, 2021
Medicine Without a Soul
Devorah Goldman
Secularized medicine imperils the human ends of the healing arts, warns Charles Camosy in Losing Our Dignity.
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American Purpose / November 10, 2021
Heavy on Thought, Light on Faith
Devorah Goldman
A former rabbi of England has written a book on restoring the common good in divided times. Curiously, he appeals little to religious conviction.
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American Purpose / January 4, 2021
Disarming Frontline Doctors
Devorah Goldman
In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.
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The New Atlantis - Winter 2021 issue / January 4, 2021
Gene Editing and Planned Personhood
Devorah Goldman
The future of germline editing includes practical risks, but the question of whether it will happen should hinge not only on whether it can be safely done. Physicians must carefully consider their role in relation to their patients, which is different from that of a scientist working with specimens in a lab.
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Public Discourse / November 12, 2020
The Yeshiva Case: A Legal Path Forward
Devorah Goldman
Jewish organizations and individuals have a necessary and powerful role to play in America’s ongoing discussions regarding religious liberty. Situations such as the conflict over New York’s yeshivas demonstrate how grave the stakes can be.
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Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York / October 1, 2020
Review of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of…
Devorah Goldman
Sarah Schenirer’s unflinching defense of basic Jewish principles, combined with the lively, youthful and joyous approach she brought to teaching, continue to guide the institution she founded.
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Jewish Action / September 1, 2020
