Jerold Auerbach / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach / JNS.org
‘The New York Times’ and Israel
JNS.org - Nothing engages New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman more than the unrelenting laceration of Israel. He has blamed “feckless” American Jewish leaders...
Hebron and Jewish Memory
JNS.org – As Nov. 19’s Shabbat Chayei Sarah approaches, we are once again reminded of the prominent place of Hebron in Jewish history. According to...
Mahmoud Abbas’s Fantasy
JNS.org - Every few years, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 16th year of his four-year term, addresses the UN General Assembly to...
Unsettled by Hebron
JNS.org - No Jews have been as relentlessly maligned as the Jews of Hebron. From the time of their arrival following the 1967 Six-Day War...
Donald Trump’s Gifts to Israel
JNS.org - The New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger seems startled by the “extraordinary four-year stretch” in the relationship between the United...
Thomas Friedman’s Folly
JNS.org - Thomas Friedman, the New York Times pontificator on the Middle East, and especially Israel, could not resist. In a column titled “The Love...
The Holy Land in the 19th Century
JNS.org - Following his journey through Sinai, Scottish artist David Roberts arrived in southern Palestine in 1839. After visiting Hebron, Roberts arrived in Jerusalem, the...