{{Short description|American author}} thumb|Oppenheimer in 2014 '''Mark Oppenheimer''' is an American author.
== Career == Oppenheimer is the executive editor of ''Arc Magazine'', an online journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://source.washu.edu/2024/06/oppenheimer-named-religion-politics-executive-editor/|title=Oppenheimer named Religion & Politics executive editor|first=Sara|last=Savat|date=June 17, 2024|website=The Source}}</ref> 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'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Oppenheimer |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/mark-oppenheimer |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Tablet Magazine |language=en}}</ref> and ''The New York Times Magazine''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mark Oppenheimer | Pulitzer Center |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/mark-oppenheimer}}</ref> He was the editor at large of ''Tablet'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Oppenheimer and Mark Oppenheimer |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/daniel-oppenheimer-and-mark-oppenheimer |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Tablet Magazine |language=en}}</ref> He co-founded the podcast Unorthodox and co-hosted it from 2015 to 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Final Fribble: Ep. 360 — Unorthodox Podcast |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/unorthodox/episode-360-mark-oppenheimer-signs-off |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Tablet Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Oppenheimer is Jewish, and regularly attends a conservative synagogue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Friedersdorf |first=Conor |date=2010-06-23 |title=An Interview with Mark Oppenheimer |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/ideas-2010/archive/2010/06/an-interview-with-mark-oppenheimer/58492/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> He was born and grew up in a secular Jewish home in Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-17 |title=Writer's Block |url=https://dailynutmeg.com/blogs/blog/summer-reading-month-2021-mark-oppenheimer-writers-block |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Daily Nutmeg |language=en}}</ref> He studied at Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in American religious history from Yale.<ref name=":0" /> He is married and has five children. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Oppenheimer |url=https://www.markoppenheimer.com/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Mark Oppenheimer |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Books== * ''Judy Blume: A Life'' (2026). * ''Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting & the Soul of a Neighborhood'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cole |first=Diane |date=2021-10-14 |title=A diverse community, an antisemitic attack and what came next |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-diverse-community-an-antisemitic-attack-and-what-came-next/2021/10/13/4211b260-1190-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> * ''The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times'' (2020). With Stephanie Butnick and Alana Newhouse. * ''The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia'' (2019).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-newish-jewish-encyclopedia-a-mostly-comprehensive-guide-to-judaism/amp/|title='The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia': A (mostly) comprehensive guide to Judaism | The Times of Israel|website=The Times of Israel }}</ref> With Liel Leibovitz and Stephanie Butnick. *''The Bar Mitzvah Crasher: Road-Tripping Through Jewish America'' *''Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2010/06/15/book-excerpt-wisenheimer|title=Book Excerpt: 'Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject To Debate'|date=June 15, 2010|website=www.wbur.org}}</ref> *''Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture'' (2003)<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2006.9.3.136 | jstor=10.1525/nr.2006.9.3.136 | doi=10.1525/nr.2006.9.3.136 | title=Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture | date=2006 | last1=Oppenheimer | first1=Mark | journal=Nova Religio | volume=9 | issue=3 | pages=136–138 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.markoppenheimer.com/ Official website] * [https://arcmag.org/ Arc Magazine]
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