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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Opinion When it comes to regime change in Iran, Jews should be careful what they wish for
While even in Tehran some have welcomed Israel's attack, we need to consider what comes next
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Opinion Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman?
A WWI-era attorney general exploited Goldman’s notoriety to target thousands of legal immigrants. Trump seems to be doing the same with Khalil.
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Opinion JFK and Charles De Gaulle knew something Trump can’t fathom
Our angry and predatory Neville Chamberlain will mean America forsaken, not first.
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Opinion In 1991, Iraq attacked. Israel’s far-right leader didn’t retaliate. Is Netanyahu capable of the same wise choice?
Israel's decision about whether to react to Iran's weekend attack could have massive global consequences — and the man making it couldn't be less fit
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News Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say
Some Jewish leaders have pulled back their criticism of the Azov Brigade since Russia's invasion
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Opinion Trump destroyed the guardrails against antisemitism — and there’s no going back
We used to ostracize public figures for even loose affiliations with antisemitism. Those days are long gone
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News At 90, a rabbi revisits the work he did as part of underground clergy abortion network
Botched abortions, secret files in Hebrew, and a prison-inspired conversion to support women’s right to choose.
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News ‘Jewish blood helps’: In Ukraine, what once held people back now speeds them to safety
BUCHAREST — Victoria Astakhova, a 66-year-old construction engineer from Kyiv, grew up in the Soviet era, when the stamp on her identity card subjected her to antisemitism from neighbors and limits on how high she could advance at work. “In college,” she recalled, “when my dorm mate discovered my card was stamped ‘Jew,’ she didn’t…
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