Jerold Auerbach
ARTICLES BY: Jerold Auerbach
Beware of Israel’s Critics
At his Times of Israel blog on September 24, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Herf cites “the great American weakening, which has been the hallmark...
The Middle East Transformation
It is hard — but not too hard — to feel sorry for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Now in the 15th year of his...
Memories of the Israeli Writer Aharon Appelfeld
The beloved woman of my boyhood was my maternal grandmother Dora – or, as I lovingly knew her, “Granny.” Because she lived in Philadelphia (where...
My Reply to Benjamin Kerstein on the Settlements
I find your critique of all settlers -- but especially in Hebron and Kiryat Arba -- oblivious to Jewish and Zionist history in the Land...
Settlements: Calamity or Fulfillment?
Benjamin Kerstein has been commended as “one of the finest American-Israeli authors of his generation.” But his recent Algemeiner critique — “Zionism, Messianism and the...
In Memory of Professor Edward Alexander
In September 1974, I arrived in Israel as a Guggenheim Fellow to teach American history at Tel Aviv University. Having visited Israel for the first...
Ruminations on Writing
“New Project.docx” on my computer screen has enabled me to become the writer — if not the sportswriter — that I yearned to be as...
Is Sovereignty Irrelevant?
The controversy over whether Israel can, or should, extend sovereignty over Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Jordan Valley has...
The Decline and Fall of Tolerance
There was a time, not that long ago, when liberalism meant open-mindedness, even freedom of speech. Not any longer. Thoughtful and tolerant discourse has now...
Peter Beinart’s Israel-Palestine Fantasies
Nearly a decade ago, Peter Beinart, a journalist with impeccable leftist credentials, authored a New York Times column titled “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.”...
Yale Fails at the Renaming Game
The headline of a full-page ad in The New York Times (July 2) — “Rename Yale Now” — immediately caught my attention. And the subheading...
‘Annexation’ or Sovereignty?
“Annexation Looms” headlined a mournful New York Times article (June 19) co-authored by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon, Palestinian affairs reporter...
Annexation Fulfills Zionist Dream
Yossi Klein Halevi has long been one of my favorite Israeli writers. Our shared New York boyhoods -- his in Brooklyn and mine in Queens...
Settlements and Sovereignty
As the Trump administration develops its plan, soon to be announced, for the extension of Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, fury...
