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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, most recently, “Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016).”

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Jerold S. AuerbachSeptember 21, 2022
Remembering a ‘founding father’ of the settlement movement
I cherish the short time I spent with Elyakim Haetzni, who helped bring Jewish life back to Hebron.
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Jerold S. AuerbachSeptember 13, 2022
‘The New York Times,’ Zionism and Israel
Jewish statehood was staunchly opposed by the newspaper of record, lest it compromise the loyalty of American Jews to their home country.
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Jerold S. AuerbachAugust 9, 2022
Jewish settlements: Past, present and future
The movement, concludes writer Daniel Kane, “no longer exists as a coherent whole”; indeed, there are “many differences among them.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachJuly 22, 2022
Thomas Friedman’s fantasy
The columnist concludes (absurdly) that “only Saudi Arabia and Israeli Arabs can save Israel as a Jewish democracy.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachJune 22, 2022
When Arabs became Palestinians
Following World War I, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill gifted the land east of the Jordan River—until then part of “Palestine,” according to the League of Nations Mandate—to Britain’s wartime ally Abdullah for his own kingdom.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJune 3, 2022
Hebron fascination
I had begun to imagine that I might write a history of the Jewish community there, by now home to 700 passionate Zionists.
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Jerold S. AuerbachMay 20, 2022
A Jewish woman enraged by Jewish women
For author Tamara Neuman, the return of Jews to Hebron demonstrates how “the aggrandizement of maternal roles” was used to claim rights in “Palestinian areas that have little remaining material evidence of a Jewish past.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachMay 16, 2022
When Arabs became Palestinians
Why was it, wondered author Walid Shoebat of Bethlehem, “that on June 4, 1967, I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachMay 4, 2022
Remembering Aharon Appelfeld
I found an empty chair next to someone who was seated alone. We exchanged a few words before lapsing into the silence that we both clearly preferred.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 29, 2022
Whose Temple Mount?
No one calls the Temple Mount the “Mosque” Mount.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 20, 2022
‘The New York Times’ fixation with ‘occupation’
Readers are told that “much of the world” considers Old City Jerusalem to be “occupied,” but no supporting evidence is provided, largely because there is none.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 12, 2022
The Biden administration’s stance towards Israel
When it comes to conflict and terror, the Palestinians are somehow never the villains.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 4, 2022
The return to Hebron
In 1979—one week after Passover and 50 years after murderous Arab rioters destroyed the millennia-old Hebron Jewish community—a momentous decision was made.
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Jerold S. AuerbachMarch 24, 2022
Thomas Friedman and Israel
It long ago became evident that when he writes a column about the Jewish state, readers should expect a barrage of criticism.
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Jerold S. AuerbachMarch 15, 2022
Whose promised land?
The British government was “well disposed towards the Arabs in Palestine.” Still, “Palestine” does not exist, and the State of Israel thrives.
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