Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
Seal the Deal and Blame Israel
Whoever said that you cannot have your cake and eat it too never read The New York Times. Hailing the current love fest between the United...
The Making of a New York Times Pundit
Until a week ago, it may be fair to say, few New York Times readers were acquainted with Israeli journalist Ari Shavit. A young writer...
Thomas Friedman’s Folly
Thomas Friedman's boyhood infatuation with Israel following the Six-Day War quickly faded. During his undergraduate years at Brandeis in the mid-Seventies he belonged to the...
Kerry in Wonderland
While President Obama was busy retracting promises and apologizing for his health care debacle, Secretary of State Kerry was frantically commuting between Jerusalem, Ramallah and...
Hebron, Always and for Eternity
Forty years ago I was invited to participate in a journey to Israel that transformed my life. Ironically, it was sponsored by the American Jewish...
Roger Cohen’s Times Tirades
Roger Cohen's repetitive lacerations of Israel in The New York Times Opinion page have managed to lower the bar even further for responsible criticism of...
Peter Beinart’s Cocoon
Peter Beinart's newest screed in The New York Review of Books ("The American Jewish Cocoon," September 26) offers variations on a familiar theme. It sharply...
Is a House a Home in Hebron?
Amid a week of Middle East turbulence, with the roller coaster ride of Syrian disintegration momentarily offset by a telephone conversation between the Iranian and...
One-State Delusion
"Two-State Illusion" was an especially catchy title for the lead Opinion column in the Sunday The New York Times Review section (September 15). It was...
Where Are the Borders?
Palestinian Authority officials, evidently terrified that talks with Israel might actually lead somewhere, have predictably placed yet another obstacle on the way. They are now...
‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ Really?
Among the many Israeli sources of irritation for The New York Times, none is more persistently aggravating than Jewish settlements. August has been an especially...
Kerry and his Court Jews
In an effort to secure support for his newly launched "peace process," Secretary of State John Kerry met last Thursday evening with a selected group...
Lionizing Palestinian Stone-Throwers
It is no secret that The New York Times has long suffered from a Jewish problem. Ever since the 1930s, when publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
Surrender for Punishment
"The release of terrorists," concluded Benjamin Netanyahu in Fighting Terrorism (1995), "is a mistake the Israeli government repeats time and time again." Such prisoner releases,...
