Career
Goldstein led Garden State Equality from when he founded it in 2004 until 2013, when New Jersey allowed same-sex marriage as a result of a court ruling in Garden State Equality v. Dow, filed in 2011. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey, and in political science at Rutgers–Newark, where he had previously served as Associate Chancellor for External Affairs. He teaches courses on civil rights and social justice, legislative advocacy, political communication, campaigns and elections, and other courses in law and American politics.
He is also Deputy Vice Chair of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
In 2000, Goldstein served as Company-Campaign Manager for the campaign of Jon Corzine for the Democratic nomination for United States. Senate in New Jersey. He had previously served as press secretary to United States. Senator Frank Lautenberg.
He had worked as a television news producer, and later founded a New York City-based public relations firm, Attention America. In February 2007, they became the first same-sex couple to enter a civil union in New Jersey.
In 2015, Goldstein and Gross announced they are no longer a couple.
Goldstein is a lawyer, former television producer, and one-time rabbinical student. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, an Master of Public Policy (Master in Public Policy) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an Master of Surgery from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. Goldstein is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.