Larry Cohler-Esses is a freelance journalist who worked for years as a reporter and editor at the Forward. He has written extensively on the Arab-Jewish relations both in the United States and the Middle East.
Larry Cohler-Esses
By Larry Cohler-Esses
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News Abe Foxman: Anti-Semitism ‘Sewer Covers Are Off’ — But I’m Optimistic on Trump
“The sun is still shining,” Abe Foxman boomed over the phone from Southern California, where it was “men’s week” at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, about 35 miles north of San Diego. It was an overcast afternoon in New York. But Foxman was paying one of his twice yearly visits last week to…
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News The Mexican Jew Who Helped Negotiate NAFTA Remains Proud of It. Is He Just An Elitist?
For the so-called “alt-right,” Jaime Zabludovsky Kuper may seem like a ready-made stereotype. A scion of one of Mexico’s most prominent Jewish families, Zabludovsky is a longtime member of Mexico’s elite. Holder of a doctorate in economics from Yale University, he is a former under secretary for international trade negotiations and a former senior economist…
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Israel News Is Jewish Oligarch the Cyber Link Between Donald Trump and Russia?
Is a Russian Jewish oligarch with Israeli citizenship and close ties to both Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu running a secret cyber-communications channel between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian authorities? That question, about billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is at the heart of a new and detailed investigative report by Franklin Foer, the former editor of…
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Breaking News In a First, a Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to $2.1 Million Child Sex Abuse Settlement
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a prominent school on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway with…
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News Iran ‘Ransom’ Flap Sparks A Battle of Dueling Definitions
“Ransom” or “strategically timed escrow payment?” That’s the question Obama administration critics and defenders were clashing over following the administration’s acknowledgement of a link between its plane shipment of cash to Iran last January, hours after Tehran released three American prisoners. The Republican Jewish Coalition was one of the first groups out of the box…
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Israel News Israel’s Stav Shaffir Fights To Keep Hope Alive
Stav Shaffir is still idealistic. A year-and-a-half after entering the Knesset, following her co-leadership of Israel’s largest ever mass protests against economic inequality, the 31-year-old redhead’s passion still shines brightly through wide grey-blue eyes. During a stop-in at the Forward Friday while visiting the United States, Shaffir, who is now a member of the Labor…
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News ADL’s Stance on Anti-BDS Bills: Highly Nuanced
When it comes to moves against BDS and the Anti-Defamation League, it’s complicated. Like most of the mainstream Jewish community, the ADL views the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel as deplorable. In fact, said the group’s national director, Jonathan Greenblatt in May, “At its core BDS is an anti-Semitic movement. It is…
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News We Did What We Had To: My Teen Abortion Tale, 1969
When memory bursts, it’s like a dam opening, flooding the present. Still, I did not expect it to happen in a late-night taxi as I headed home from work, reading a New York Times story on my smartphone. On its face, the story before me had nothing to do with my own history: It was…
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