Posts Tagged: Jerold S. Auerbach
Ruminations on Writing
“New Project.docx” on my computer screen has enabled me to become the writer — if not the sportswriter — that I yearned to be as...
The Legitimacy of Jewish Settlements
“Most of my ethnic group,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote (evading his identity as a Jew), “understands that Trump is bad for...
Journalism’s Longest War: The New York Times Versus Zionism and Israel
Review: Jerold S. Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel: 1896-2016. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. It has long been a commonplace...
Literary Rites of Passage
Philip Roth’s decision to stop writing earned the laudatory attention it deserves. After authoring 31 books, he announced, first to himself and then to the literary...
The New York Times Strikes (Out) Again
When it comes to Jewish settlements, The New York Times has long had a low boiling point. Railing at Israeli government approval for “the construction of...
Kudos to the University of Chicago on Commitment to ‘Rigorous Debate’
With a new academic year approaching, it was reassuring to read a headline declaring, “Free Speech Is the Basis of a True Education.” Following recent...
What You Need to Ignore
On Thursday CNN issued a report entitled “Israeli-Palestinian Violence: What You Need To Know.” In standard liberal tropes it attempted to explain the current demise...
Hannukah Greetings From The New York Times
The New York Times, owned by Jews named Sulzberger ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the floundering newspaper in 1896, might have passed along Hanukkah...
SJP=BDS=SSI
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an oxymoronic synonym for SSI: "Students for Slandering Israel." A tacit collaborator with BDS, the international movement that...
The New York Times’ Favorite Rabbis
In the midst of the Gaza war New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren lauded Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman, founder of her liberal Reform synagogue...
Nothing Makes Hamas Happier Than Dead Palestinians
Nothing plays better in the mainstream media these days than wailing Gazans, mourning their dead from Israeli missile strikes responding to the unprovoked deluge of...
If Not Peace Now, When?
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit has abruptly shifted into reverse gear - for the second time in a week. Writing in Haaretz (April 24), he revisited...
In Hebron, Victory at Last!
The ancient city of Hebron, twenty miles south of Jerusalem, has long been a source of seething conflict between Arabs and Jews. According to the...
Another Performance by The Times Trio
Nothing seems to please New York Times editors more than an opportunity to launch a multi-front fusillade against Israel, either in the Sunday Review section...
