director of the American Jewish Congress National Commission on Youth. He has served as a member of the central committees of the Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim Federation, the Israel Labor Party Young Guard and Habonim (now Habonim Dror), and was a sharpshooter in the Israel Border Police civil guard. Journalistic career Goldberg became editor of The Forward in 2000 and left the position in 2007 to write a book. Books Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1996. Builders and Dreamers: Habonim Labor Zionist Youth in North America. Cornwall Books, 1993. (editor) The Jewish Americans. Bantam-Doubleday-Dell, 1992. References External links J. J. Goldberg at The Forward. Living people 1949 births American male journalists Jewish American journalists American taxi drivers Kibbutzniks People from Massapequa, New York Woodrow Wilson High School (Washington, D.C.) alumni 21st-century American Jews