Benjamin Waife (January 9, 1895 – December 29, 1972), better known by his pen name Ben Zion Goldberg, was a Belarusian-born Jewish-American journalist.
A daily columnist for over forty years, he proved influential and controversial, especially with his pro-Soviet stance that ended with the purge of Soviet Jewish leaders.
He wrote some books in English, including Sacred Fire: The Story of Sex in Religion in 1930 and The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union in 1961.
He wrote a weekly column for Al HaMishmar, served as editor of Eynikeit from 1943 to 1946 and of Jewish Digest in 1943, and was a correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Toronto Daily Star, and The New Republic.
[7] Three days after Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem came to America, Goldberg went to his hotel and invited him to lecture to Yiddish-speaking students at Columbia University.
[8] Goldberg died from a heart attack in a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was visiting to write a series of articles and engage in research, on December 29, 1972.
At the graveside, Histadrut treasurer Yehoshua Levi and Al HaMishmar editor Yaakov Amit also delivered eulogies.