Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
President Biden and Israel
With Donald Trump gone from the White House and the shame of impeachment as the Senate’s farewell, his most durable achievement is easily overlooked. He...
Israel in Memory
As a 15-year-old I made my peace with the reality that I would not follow my cousin Hank Greenberg to baseball stardom. I chose the...
Two Davids in the New York Times
While politicians, lawyers, and editors fiercely debated whether President Trump had committed the impeachable offense of inciting violence against the government of the United States,...
Jonathan Pollard, Home at Last
It was June, 1997. The phone rang. My 10-year-old daughter handed it to me and said with a knowing smile: “It’s Jonathan.” His now familiar...
My Hanukkah Memories
Hanukkah was my favorite boyhood holiday. Eight nights of candle lighting, a dreidel to spin, and parental gifts. Best of all, my father would set...
President Biden, Equivocator-in-Chief
Marking the third anniversary of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently celebrated that gift by...
Obama’s Promised Land
A Promised Land, Barack Obama’s newly-published 768-page memoir that tops The New York Times Best Seller List, borrows its title from the Biblical recounting of...
Enduring Memories of Holocaust Remembrance
Our family subscription issue of Life magazine, dated May 7, 1945, arrived on my ninth birthday. Its cover photograph, under the caption “The German People,” showed...
Hebron in History and Memory
My first visit to Hebron came nearly half a century ago with a group of “disaffected Jewish academics,” chosen by the American Jewish Committee to...
Will Anything Change at New York Times?
The New York Times has a new Jerusalem bureau chief, with Patrick Kingsley replacing David Halbfinger, its most Israel-friendly Jerusalem reporter. London-born, Kingsley was Middle...
The Case Against The New York Times
In familiar laceration mode, the Editorial Board of The New York Times Sunday Review recently (October 18) offered “The Case Against Donald Trump.” Page one...
Memories While Watching the Barrett Hearings
Watching Senate confirmation hearings for the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court I was impressed with her concise and articulate responses...
Adolph Ochs’ Legacy at The New York Times
The New York Times’ Jewish problem is more than a century old. It dates to 1896, when Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times,...
Jerusalem’s History Revisited and Revised
Confined to my home library by the corona virus shutdown of our public library, I recently reread Jerusalem Besieged (2004) by George Washington University Professor...
