Nadene Goldfoot
Dokoupil was born in Connecticut on December 24, 1980. He is of Czech descent. His mother, Ann, worked as a teacher, while his father, Anthony, when growing up, was told of his father's involvement in real estate, which was a front. It turned out he was a marijuana dealer. His mother remarried. His family relocated to Miami in 1981. Baby Tony, his mother, and his step-father Ray relocated to Maryland in 1992, shortly after his father's drug operation received greater attention from law enforcement.
He attended George Washington University, where he received a bachelor's degree in business administration and played NCAA Division 1 baseball, graduating in 2002. Dokoupil earned a master's degree in American studies from Columbia University and spent two years on a PhD track fellowship in media studies at Columbia before leaving to pursue journalism in 2007.
Dokoupil married an Israeli, Danielle Haas in the early 2008s, and had two children. Dokoupil converted to Judaism in 2008 while engaged to Haas. He took classes at a progressive synagogue (Conservative ? ) in Manhattan and received a second circumcision as an adult to complete his conversion, which he wrote about for The New Republic.
She is a private individual who relocated to Israel with their two children following the separation. Dokoupil and Haas were married for over a decade, with the marriage ending in 2015. Following the divorce, Haas has kept a low public profile, while Dokoupil has spoken about his children's safety in Israel during times of conflict.
Danielle Haas was senior editor at Human Rights Watch from 2009 to 2023. She wrote about "a boy walks through rubble as rescuers search for casualties following an Israeli" bombing . Actually, "Human Rights Watch has been calling on businesses to stop operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of their duty to avoid complicity in human rights abuses. However, even though Human Rights Watch calls on businesses to comply with this duty in many other countries as well, the court found that applying this principle to ensure respect for Palestinians’ rights constitutes a call for boycott, based on a broad reading of a 2017 law that bars entry to people who advocate a boycott of Israel or its West Bank settlements." It's the slippery slope of playing fair to people's rights, yet noticing who gets hurt by them.
I can see where the talent of both in writing and in defense of honesty in reporting may have brought them together, but matters of living inIsrael may had driven them apart.
Dokoupil later married journalist Katy Tur in 2017. It was love at first sight. After around two years of dating, Dokoupil eloped with fellow broadcast journalist Katy Tur in October 2017. They have two children together. After the birth of his fourth child, Dokoupil announced on CBS Mornings that he had undergone a vasectomy, urging other men to consider it to take on the burden of birth control from their female partners.
On September 30, 2024, Dokoupil discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with author Ta-Nehisi Coates during the latter's appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the book The Message. Dokoupil implied that the book reads like the work of an extremist and questioned Coates about his opinion regarding Israel's right to exist. Some CBS staffers were angered by the interview, and CBS executive Adrienne Roark said that an internal review found that it did not meet network standards.
Shortly after the October 7 attacks, Dokoupil had spoken about how he struggled to separate his views as a journalist from his fear for the safety of his children from his first marriage, who live in Israel with their mother.
Dokoupil was defended by Paramount chair Shari Redstone and other CBS staffers, including Jan Crawford, who argued that Dokoupil was journalistically correct to challenge Coates's argument.
Dokoupil’s best night of the week was Monday, January 12, where he drew in 6.38 million viewers. However, ABC’s numbers were also way up on that night (10.88 million viewers), which was likely due to NBC’s evening news program being preempted for NBA coverage, forcing their loyal viewers to tune into one of the other networks. Sports comes first to many viewers. As for myself, I've just discovered Portland, Oregon's Trailblazers and their star player from Israel, Deni Avdija from Maccabi Games in Tel Aviv.
Resource:
Night Movies, by Sean Mandell- in People magazine) Jan.19,2026;p. 32-33.
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