[7][8][9] Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,[10][11] Al Jazeera America,[12][13] Vice,[14] and the Huffington Post,[15][16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,[17] NPR and other media outlets.
[18] Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York.
In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley.
In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.
[26] In 2016, his Newsweek cover story[27] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.