Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
A Bumbling Ambassador in Israel
In a striking display of arrogance – and ignorance – American Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides recently told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he must...
Visiting The Temple Mount: Much Ado About Nothing
This past week, The New York Times ran an ominous sounding headline: “Hard-line Israeli Minister Visits Jerusalem Holy Site; Palestinians Seethe.” What made them seethe? Itamar...
Hady Amr’s Fantasy
The recent announcement of Hady Amr’s appointment as “special representative for Palestinian affairs” in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs provides a revealing...
Whats In A Name? A History of Jewish Auerbachs
As a boy I was not enamored of my family surname. To be sure, Auerbach secured a place at, or very near, the top of...
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...
