Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
Despised Settlers
According to the Biblical narrative Abraham’s purchase of the Machpelah cave in Hebron as the burial site for Sarah (Genesis 23) marks the first property...
When Arabs Became Palestinians
With the recent eruption of Palestinian violence on the Temple Mount, followed by the murder of three Israelis from the town of Elad, it is...
Hebron and Jerusalem
My first visit to Israel, nearly fifty years ago, was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee for “disaffected Jewish academics.” I was eminently qualified. Although...
Another Biden Blunder in Pick for Israel Envoy
Thomas Nides, recently appointed as the United States' ambassador to Israel, seems conspicuously unqualified for the position — unless misguided criticism of Israel is a...
Israel Despised
Diatribes against Israel by Jews are hardly new. But French journalist Sylvain Cypel, who emigrated to Israel in time to become an IDF paratrooper before...
Israeli Heroines
Any newcomer to Jerusalem’s Old City learns that it is divided into four quarters: Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian. Although there are no formal boundaries,...
The New York Times, Again
Nothing seems worthier of publication in the New York Times than the laceration of Israel. This, to be sure, is nothing new. Decades before there...
Building Jewish Hebron
The recent announcement that new housing has been authorized for Hebron Jews predictably stoked fury among Israelis on the political left, for whom Hebron —...
Prayer and Punishment on the Temple Mount
Several decades ago, during a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem, I was chatting with Mahmoud, my favorite antiquities dealer who had become a...
Remembering Aharon Appelfeld
A decade ago my closest Israeli friend, on sabbatical leave and living in the Boston suburb of Brookline, invited me to a gathering of fellow...
Ideological Indigestion in the New York Times
Anyone familiar with the incessant criticism of Israel from journalist Mairav Zonszein is unlikely to be surprised by her most recent contribution to The New...
Jews and Israelis; Arabs and Palestinians
Historians understand that knowledge of the past is necessary to understand the present. So it is with “Palestine,” which made its debut in the 5th...
New York Times Absurdities
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, whose writings repeatedly demonstrate how little he knows about Israel, cannot be restrained. Immoral equivalence between Israel and Hamas...
Thomas Friedman’s Fantasy
Thomas Friedman, the self-appointed unrelenting critic of Israel for The New York Times, has seized another opportunity to bolster his credentials. As it also did...
