Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
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...
Goldberg Variations
The New York Times is known, among other things, for promoting its own lavishly sponsored "Journeys" with full-page advertisements. For $6,995 and up it offers...
Palestinian ‘Refugees’
It has been suggested that counters don’t think and it is thinkers who really count. Nowhere is this mantra more applicable than to the perennial...
Why Are Hebron Apartments a Big Deal to the New York Times?
In a six-column article, The New York Times (on Oct. 17) reported on Israeli plans to implement “a significant expansion” of settlements in the “occupied West...
Israel and its History Under Siege
Of the publishing of anti-Israel books there is no end. According to London-based writer and musician Thomas Suárez, Israel is “a racially predicated state” based...
Another Example of Myopic, Anti-Israel Journalism
After the Oslo Accords were signed, Australian journalist John Lyons believed that “the world was on the brink of resolving one of the most relentless conflicts...
Fictional Hebron
A trio of Californian-American-Jewish novelists, whose religion is liberalism, have recently discovered the ancient biblical city of Hebron. But they demonstrate little fondness for the city...
Relocating the US Embassy in Israel: Better Late Than Never
President Donald Trump made a campaign promise to “move the American embassy to Jerusalem – to the eternal capital of the Jewish people.” Amid the media...
Unfree Speech on the Temple Mount
Having taught the history of freedom of speech in the United States for 45 years to college students at Brandeis and Wellesley I retain a residual...
