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Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of ten books, including Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (1976), a New York Times Noteworthy Book; Justice Without Law? (1983); Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey From Torah to Constitution (1990, 2010); Jacob's Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew (1996, 2010); Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel (2001); Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land (2006); Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel (2009); Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena (2011); and Against the Grain: A Historian's Journey (2012). His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Harper's, The New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Forward, The Jewish Press and American Thinker. Auerbach has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, recipient of two College Teachers Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College.

ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach


September 16, 2015 7:16 am
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The Jewish Problem at The New York Times

The depths of the Jewish problem at The New York Times were glaringly exposed last week, when it published a chart identifying the Jewishness of congressional...

September 11, 2015 4:44 am
6

The Liberal Critique of Israel That Has Guided ‘The New York Times’ Since the Six Day War

Amid the stunning beauty and enviable tranquility of a recent vacation in Switzerland I was twice jolted into the warped landscape of Israel as viewed...

August 17, 2015 10:55 am
12

Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (REVIEW)

Among the lamentably small coterie of Jewish intellectuals and academics who defend Israel against the anti-Zionist tirades of its legions of liberal and leftist Jewish...

July 6, 2015 5:04 pm
9

New York Times Headlines That Distort Reality

Two recent headlines in The New York Times, five days apart, concealed more than they revealed. On June 30: “Israeli Man Dies in Attack Near...

June 25, 2015 5:59 pm
3

Moral Equivalence on the Rampage

The report of the international commission of inquiry, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council to allocate responsibility for last summer’s Gaza war, exposed...

June 10, 2015 1:09 pm
27

The New York Times vs. Israel

A deep sigh of editorial relief was discernible at The New York Times following the Supreme Court decision in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the Jerusalem passport...

March 2, 2015 12:56 am
71

Netanyahu Speaks and (Some) American Jews Tremble

On the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress the level of hysteria among American Jewish liberals has reached cascading proportions. From full-page...

February 26, 2015 5:17 pm
20

The Human Stain of Moral Preening

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times is everyone's favorite bleeding-heart columnist. His focus on human rights abuses, especially in Darfur, won him a Pulitzer...

February 13, 2015 10:53 am
8

President of Equivocation and Evasion

President Obama's bouts of equivocation and evasion are worrisome. Even The New York Times, not inclined to editorialize in its news columns except when Israel...

February 9, 2015 8:46 am
27

When is an Illegal Settlement Legal?

Everyone knows that Jewish settlements are illegal under international law. This is one of the endlessly repeated mantras that reinforce the denigration of Israel as...

January 27, 2015 4:26 pm
17

Watch the Children at Play

Once again the children are racing around the media playground in a frantic attempt to dissuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from addressing Congress in March....

January 26, 2015 1:11 pm
13

The New York Times Reports the ‘Ordinary Life’ of a Palestinian Terrorist

Even when New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren is otherwise occupied, its coverage of Israel is worse than dismal; it is palpably distorted,...

January 13, 2015 3:53 pm
26

President Obama’s Divided Loyalty Dilemma

With its Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, France emancipated its Jews. But there was a price: Jews were immediately tormented...

January 11, 2015 3:20 pm
13

Presidents Confront (or Evade) Islamic Terrorism

A rising wave of Islamist terrorist attacks has erupted since December - with especially murderous atrocities committed in Peshawar (132 children); Iraq (150 women in...

World

Jews, Israelis Targeted in Austria Amid Surge in Antisemitic Incidents; Loc...

Austria is facing a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents and anti-Israel rhetoric, prompting outrage from the country's Jewish community and...

Israel

Europe Won’t Pressure Israel to ‘Commit Suicide’ Amid Gaz...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has dismissed mounting global pressure to end the war in Gaza and accept the creation...

Middle East

US, Israel Recall Negotiators From Gaza Ceasefire Talks, Witkoff Says...

Israel and the United States both recalled their negotiators from Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar on Thursday, with US envoy...

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