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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.”

It was in Hebron where David became king of Israel, ruling for seven years before relocating his throne in Jerusalem.
In his unrelenting laceration of Israel for depriving Palestinians of their own state, the columnist has ignored history and reality.
Journalist Isabel Kershner refers to the Jewish state’s “corrosive occupation” of its own homeland.
The New York Times appears ignorant of Jewish history in Judea and Samaria.
Discovering my submerged Jewish self.
The columnist seems unaware of the fact that Israel’s prime ministers are under no obligation to take his advice.
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?