A. Bruce Goldman

A. Bruce Goldman (June 1935 – April 2, 2020) was an American rabbi and amateur photographer known for his progressive views and activism.

Biography Goldman first came to national attention with his defense of the right of undergraduate students to co-habit in dormitories, which was then in violation of some colleges' rules.

Goldman received increased notoriety in 1968, during the 1968 Columbia University protests against racism and the Vietnam War. Goldman, then the Jewish chaplain at Columbia University, placed himself as a nonviolent intervenor when police forces moved in to attack students performing a sit-in. Goldman, himself an opponent of the Vietnam War, continued to support student protestors, through their occupation of administrative offices on campus. although he remained at Columbia as an advisor to Jewish students until the mid-1970s.

During the 1970s, he hosted a radio program on WBAI called "Up Against the Wailing Wall", which discussed Jewish issues. In a 1998 piece for The New York Times, Goldman estimated he performed 3,300 marriages involving non-Jews.

Goldman lived in New York City until his death on April 2, 2020 at the age of 84, from COVID-19.