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"What I can say for sure is that something big has happened to me, I know this because everything feels very different. Maybe this year has chipped away at some of my jaded edges and left me feeling a little more optimistic about the world."
Lawrence Tompkins (2007 - 2008)
Captain
Fire Department of New York
Professor
The Journalism School, Columbia University
Professor Freedman received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He has worked as a reporter for the Bridgewater (N.J) Courier-News, Chicago Tribune’s Suburban Trib and The New York Times. He has been a contributor to Rolling Stone, Salon,and The New York Times and a contributing correspondent to PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors and an adjunct professor of theatre at the Columbia University School of the Arts, 1984. He is the author of Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School (1990), Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993), The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996), Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000.) His achievements include being a finalist for the National Book Award, 1990; winning theHelen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1993; being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizes, 1997; winning the New Jersey Humanities Council Book Award, 1997; earning the Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists, 1997; and winning the National Jewish Book Award, 2000.
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