Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Oppenheimer is an American author.

Oppenheimer in 2014

Career

Oppenheimer is the executive editor of Religion & Politics, an online journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.^[1] He is the former Beliefs columnist for The New York Times, and has contributed to numerous magazines, including The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, Tablet,^[2] and The New York Times Magazine.^[3] He was the editor at large of Tablet magazine.^[4] He co-founded the podcast Unorthodox and co-hosted it from 2015 to 2023.^[5]

Personal life

Oppenheimer is a Jew, who regularly attends a conservative synagogue.^[6] He was born and grew up in a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts.^[7] He studied at Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Yale.^[3] He is married and has five children. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.^[8]

Books

• The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times. With Stephanie Butnick and Alana Newhouse.
• Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting & the Soul of a Neighborhood (2021)^[9]
• The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia (2019).^[10] With Liel Leibovitz and Stephanie Butnick.
• The Bar Mitzvah Crasher: Road-Tripping Through Jewish America
• Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate^[11]
• Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture (2003)^[12]