Benyamin Cohen is the News Director at the Forward. Follow him on Twitter @benyamincohen and sign up for his morning newsletter.
Benyamin CohenNews Director
By Benyamin Cohen
-
Forwarding the News Hostage number grows, Israel prepped to invade and the latest from the war front
Antisemitic graffiti discovered at schools in the U.S. and shuls in Spain, Republican Orthodox Jews embrace Biden for pro-Israel stance, and remembering a murdered synagogue president.
-
Forwarding the News Biden lands in Israel as war escalates with Gaza hospital explosion
IDF kills Hamas senior commander, Berlin synagogue firebombed, how Elon Musk may get involved in the war, and we report onboard the cruise ship evacuating U.S. citizens from Israel to Cyprus.
-
Forwarding the News Biden to visit Israel, Hamas releases first hostage video, and more updates to start your day
Jewish foundation pulls funding from Harvard over school's tepid response to war, Trump pledges crackdown on Muslim immigrants, and Taylor Swift's bodyguard returns to Israel to fight with IDF.
-
Forwarding the News American Jews send bulletproof vests, money and donuts to Israel
NYC shul raises $18 million for Israel, Muslim boy in Chicago killed in hate crime tied to Mideast conflict, why Biden's antisemitism plan was made for this moment, and the latest on the escalating war.
-
Fast Forward Bulletproof vests and Entenmann’s donuts: American Jews send supplies to war-torn Israel
Etan Goldman, who transported six suitcases from Los Angeles to Israel, is just one of many Americans who are finding a way to help
-
Forwarding the News Israel at war: The latest updates to start your day
Inside a hostage crisis center, U.S. raises travel advisory to Israel, France and UK report rise in antisemitic incidents since attack, Trump slams Israeli intelligence & young couple weds amid chaos.
-
Forwarding the News Israel at war: The latest updates, analysis and eyewitness accounts
After the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust, stories of death, devastation and politics. Plus: How one Israeli woman stalled her captors for 20 hours by giving them cookies and Coke Zero.
-
News In photos: The world reacts to shocking onset of Israel-Gaza war
Protests in New York City, Israeli flags in Ukraine and extra security at synagogues — this is how the world reacted to the weekend's stunning violence
Most Popular
- 1
Forverts in English A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
- 2
News ‘No one’s allowed to talk to me’: At UW-Madison, trying — and failing — to talk about Israel
- 3
Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
- 4
News At Washington University, 2 Jewish seniors differ on Israel, but share a sense of loss
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward NYC deputy mayor charges Washington Post with antisemitism
-
Fast Forward IDF recovers bodies of 3 Nova festival victims, including Shani Louk
-
Fast Forward Police in Rouen, France, shoot and kill man who set fire to a synagogue
-
News Queens College has been a model of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Can it stay that way after Oct. 7?