Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.
Her writing has appeared in Variety, The Huffington Post,Wewomen.ca, and Mic.com.
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What you need to know about Independence Day's Jewish connotations.
Eight crazy nights? How about eight hazy nights! With Hanukkah starting this Sunday evening, it’s time to start getting your latkes on — and you may need to get in a better frame of mind to do that. For a cool $700 you can be the proud owner of a bong menorah. Created by Grav…
Happy Bastille Day, les amis! Let’s face it, the most recent stories describing the French Jewish experience have been disturbing. Between a January attack in Marseilles that led the leader of the city’s Jewish community to recommend Jews avoid wearing kippahs in public, reports that the leader of the devastating November attacks in Paris also…
Only four months after Joan Rivers passed away unexpectedly from complications following surgery, Melissa Rivers was offered the chance to play her onscreen. Rivers channels her mother and “Fashion Police” powerhouse in a guest spot in “Joy,” the upcoming David O. Russell film starring Jennifer Lawrence as Miracle-Mop-inventor Joy Mangano. The resemblance is uncanny. But…
The line to enter New York City’s B’nai Jeshurun synagogue on Sunday night went around the block. But the 700 people who crowded the sidewalk on West 88th street weren’t there for services. Or for a wedding. Or a late-night bar mitzvah. They came to celebrate a king — a Moroccan king, to be exact….
Soup for everyone! “Seinfeld“‘s Soup Nazi, played by actor Larry Thomas, is showing off his softer side this holiday season. The character, along with Original SoupMan CEO Jamie Karson, are teaming up with City Harvest and donating over 1,000 soups to support hungry New Yorkers. According to a statement released by the company, “this is…
“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” is getting a not-so-surprise twist. The New York Times that President Barack Obama will guest-star on Jerry Seinfeld’s web-series, in an episode set to land on December 30. The two will drive a blue 1963 Corvette Sting Ray split-window coupe around the White House driveway, before ending up in a…
Termination proceedings have begun against a faculty member of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton who has been advocating conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. written by Lenny and Veronique Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was one of the victims of the tragedy. In a short statement, Lenny Pozner expressed…
חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב און זעניע לאַרסאָן זענען געווען נאָענטע חבֿרטעס ביז זעניע האָט פּובליקירט זייערע בריוו אין 1971.
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