Zev Chafets

Zev Chafets

Zev Chafets (born 1947 [ [http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/00/Spr00/mt1s00.html University of Michigan newspaper article] ] ) is a Jewish American author and columnist who was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan, moved to Israel. He spent a decade in the army, government service and politcs,working for the Liberal Party in the Likud. In 1977, he was appointed Director of the Government Press Office, a post he held for five years during the administration of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

He was the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report Magazine and is the author of ten books of fiction, media criticism, and social and political commentary.

He was a regular columnist for the New York Daily News from 2000 until 2004. Today his columns appear frequently in major newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Books

Five works of non-fiction
# Double Vision: How America's Press Distorts Our View of the Middle East (1985)
# Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men (1986)
# Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit (1990)
# A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance (HarperCollins Hardcover - Jan 9, 2007)
# Members of the Tribe (Bantam Hardcover- 1988)

And five novels
# Inherit the Mob (Random House)
# The Bookmakers, (Random House)
# The Project (Warner Books)
# Whacking Jimmy (as William Wolf) ((Villard))
# Hang Time. (Warner Books)

Personal

Zev Chafets is married to Lisa Beyer. He is the father of Michal Chafets and Charley Roden, Shmuel Chafets, Coby Beyer-Chafets and Annie Beyer-Chafets and the grandfather of Ella Roden.

Controversy

Mr. Chafet's is often accused of anti-arab prejudice [http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2004/12/brute_farce.html] and right wing sycophancy. [http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/07/times_magazine_rush_limbaugh_full_court_press_01.php]

ources

External links

* [http://jewishworldreview.com/0507/chafets_archives.asp Archives for Zev Chafets articles on Jewish World Review]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=a&query=&srchst=nyt&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=zev+chafets&daterange=period&mon1=01&day1=01&year1=1981&mon2=10&day2=07&year2=2007Zev Chafets in the New york times magazine]
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Zev%20Chafets&page=1 His books for sale on Amazon .com]

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