Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
The New York Times and Hanukkah
Ever since Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, launching what eventually became the Sulzberger family dynasty that still presides over the newspaper,...
Hanukkah Memories
Every year, as Hanukkah approaches, I remove the First Book of Maccabees from my book case. The inscribed purchase date, November 1977, anticipated the Hanukkah following...
A New Neighborhood in Hebron
The upcoming Torah reading on Shabbat -- Chaye Sarah -- recounts Sarah’s death in “Kiryat Arba, now Hebron.” Abraham, in his grief, approached Ephron the...
Israel on Fire and The New York Times
“All the News That’s Fit to Print,” the venerable motto of The New York Times ever since publisher Adolph Ochs made it his newspaper’s pledge...
The Palestinian Refugee Scam
Another Nakba Day, the annual commemoration of the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the 1948 war launched by Arab states to annihilate...
A Dead Gaza Baby
Last month Israel began to confront a daily barrage of fire kites and burning tire smoke across its Gaza border, igniting fires that destroyed thousands...
Gaza and the Fallacy of Moral Equivalence
Rarely does the photo, four columns wide, of a dead baby appear on page one of The New York Times as it did on May 17....
Israel’s 70th in The New York Times
Even though I anticipated the answer, I still could not help wondering how The New York Times would respond to the 70th anniversary of Israel’s...
Reminiscing: Israel at 70
I celebrated my 12th birthday one week before the birth of the State of Israel. I was about to begin lessons for my bar mitzvah with...
The Shame of The New York Times
Criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s “vile words” in his address to the Palestinian National Council, The New York Times' editorial brigade seemed (finally) to have grasped...
The New York Times’ Roger Cohen Laments Israeli Self-Defense
Among the court Jews, Roger Cohen of The New York Times leads the coterie identifiable as “ashamed Jews." He laments Israel’s defense of its borders...
The Lie of Palestinian ‘Refugees’
As Israel approaches its 70th anniversary of independence, the time has come to finally resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. By that, I mean the real one...
Passover in Hebron
Immediately after the Six-Day War ended in June 1967, Hanan Porat -- a child survivor of the Arab destruction of Gush Etzion and massacre of more...
Roger Cohen’s Shame
A distinguishing trait of New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, as it was for his predecessor Anthony Lewis, is Jewish shame. Lewis frequently lamented that...
Lamenting 'Historic Missed Opportunity,' Top Israeli Minister Calls for Plan for Mass French-Jewish Aliyah
Netanyahu: Israel Will Act Against 'Precision Weapons' in Lebanon, Foil Hezbollah Tunnel Threat
Six Israelis, Including Pregnant Woman, Wounded in Palestinian Shooting Attack
Hezbollah’s War on Israel Takes Precedence Over Bibi
Jewish Groups Welcome Chilean Government Decision to Ban Municipal Boycotts of Israel