Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

Moshe Dayan’s decision to prohibit Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, writes Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik, “was a terrible mistake, the worst in Israel’s history.”
My encounters in the Holy Land turned me away from assimilation.
Can the Israeli left reject David Ben-Gurion’s appalling resort to violence against Jews and accept the result of a democratic election?
There is no more appropriate place for Jews to live than in their ancient homeland.
The Times columnist’s laceration of the Jewish state has a long history.
A visit from my grandfather came 17 years after his death.
No matter how fervently the paper wishes, it is unlikely that a Jewish state would ever relinquish its biblical homeland to Palestinians.
Just in time for Hanukkah, the “paper of record” indulges its century-long discomfort with the Jewish state.
In his new autobiography, Israel’s newly reelected prime minister looks back on his extraordinary career.
To be there is to return to the source of Jewish history in the promised land.
Shabbat Chayei Sarah testifies to the enduring power of the Jewish connection to our promised land.
“The New York Times” will never make peace with the existence of a Jewish state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people.