Goldman is a tenured professor at Columbia, where he directs the Scripps Howard Program on Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life.

The program has enabled him to take his "Covering Religion" seminar on study tours of Israel, Ireland, Italy, Russia and India.

His former students have gone on to be religion writers at such papers as the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun and the Raleigh News & Observer.

Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at Oxford University in England and a scholar-in-residence at Stern College for Women.

Goldman is a founding board member of Shtetl, a media outlet covering the Haredi Jewish community that launched in 2023.