Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
Sound and Fury on the Israeli Left
Anyone who is unfamiliar with the rhetoric of the Israeli left might want to check out responses from Peace Now and Haaretz to the recent...
Jewish ‘Settlers’ in Jerusalem
In 1628, twenty years after Jamestown became the first British colony in North America, a new settlement far to the north was named Salem. For...
Abbas Finds a Friend in The New York Times
In his Rosh Hashanah tirade at the UN General Assembly Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, now in the ninth year of his four-year term, calumnied...
Betrayal: FDR and the Jews
Like everyone else I knew in the Forest Hills of my boyhood, my parents were the American-born children of immigrants from Eastern Europe. But my...
New Year’s Greetings From Hamas
In the narrative of inversion that distorted media coverage of the recent Gaza war, the plight of Israeli civilians targeted by Hamas rockets, missiles and...
A Familiar Plague Infests Israel
Last week 43 Israeli soldiers from Unit 8200 of the IDF Intelligence Corps sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Lt....
When is an Islamic State Not Islamic?
In his nationally televised speech on the eve of the anniversary of 9/11, President Obama pointedly declared: "The Islamic State [ISIL] is not Islamic." If...
To Settle or Not to Settle? That is the Question
Not long after the recent Gaza war finally subsided, a familiar contentious issue reemerged. Following an investigation lasting several years Israel's Civil Administration declared nearly...
The Legacy of Daniel Tragerman, z”l
The recent death from Hamas mortar fire of 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman was a tragic and transforming moment in Israel. Like the kidnapping and murder...
Exposing The New York Times’ Top Man in Gaza
New York Times readers have reason to wonder how Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren, its primary Gaza war reporter, has gained access...
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...
The New York Times Postscript: Rudoren and Friedman
The Gaza ceasefire is prompting an array of assessments, in Israel and worldwide, of the costs and potential benefits to Hamas and the Jewish state...
May His Memory Be a Blessing
There is no more touching - and revealing - story to emerge from the Gaza war than the life and death of Sergeant Max Steinberg,...
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...
