Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.[1] He is the son of scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married Jas Johl, who serves on the board of directors of the policy think tank The Roosevelt Institute. [2]

Elijah Wolfson

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.[3][4][5]

Wolfson served as senior editor at Newsweek,[6] where he covered science, health, technology and culture.[7][8][9] He has contributed to The Atlantic,[10][11] Al Jazeera America,[12][13]Vice,[14] and the Huffington Post,[15][16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,[17] NPR and other media outlets.[18]

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellows by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.[19] In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,[20] and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.[21] In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship[22] and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.[23]

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story[24] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.[25][26] The story sparked protests.[27][28][29][30]

Wolfson is an editor at Time Magazine[31]. Previously, he was editor at Quartz.[32][33][34]