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 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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News Purim in Wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present
BUCHAREST — It was fitting, somehow, that on Purim, the holiday where up is down and down is up, the only Ukrainian refugee I could find among the 200 people attending Wednesday night’s megillah reading at the Choral Temple in Romania’s capital was a Moroccan Jew from Marakkesh. Zakaria Maarif, who is 23, spent the…
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News Meet Israel Sabag, the man finding shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Romania — and their pets
Israel Sabag was facing a rebellion from the busload of 30 refugees who arrived unexpectedly at the Joint Distribution Committee’s tent here on Ukraine’s border with Romania Friday morning. Sabag, the Joint’s director for Romania, had been working for weeks with local hotels and hostels to prepare for the flood of people that had been…
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News ‘Our city is totally destroyed’: One refugee’s story as she crosses the border from Ukraine
Editor’s note: Larry Cohler-Esses, a longtime Forward writer and editor, departed New York on Tuesday to report along the Ukrainian border on the Jewish efforts to support refugees from Russia’s invasion. This is his first dispatch. SUCEAVA, Romania — It took nearly 24 hours of travel — the crawl through rush-hour traffic from the Upper…
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