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 Harvard Hillel Falsely Accuses the Forward
Credit: Flickr/timsackton Harvard being Harvard, and Hillel being Hillel, it catches an editor’s attention when the executive director of Hillel at Harvard sends out an email blast publicly accusing the Forward of printing an untruth; especially when he does so without the courtesy of telling us or others what that untruth might be — despite…
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Opinion Debate Occupation? No Thanks, We’re Jewish.
During a recent visit to the Forward’s newsroom, Jerry Silverman, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, was brimming with enthusiasm for the upcoming annual gathering of local Jewish charity federations nationwide, known as the General Assembly, which will take place this year not in the United States, but in Jerusalem. The…
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News Iran Scores Breakthrough Meeting With Lawmakers as Diplomatic Thaw Builds
Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are not alone in seeking to influence Congress’s response to the Obama administration’s unprecedented diplomatic engagement with Iran. On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with a delegation of Congress members from both parties for three hours at the home of Iran’s UN Ambassador. “There…
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Israel News Iran’s Hassan Rowhani Wants to Make a Nuclear Deal — Leaving Israel Isolated
Longtime advocates of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can often be heard saying that after decades of talks, “everyone knows what the deal on the table is.” Known it may be. But it always seems that one, the other, or both of the parties involved have their reasons for never being able to…
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Opinion Yeshiva Rabbi’s Shades of Bigotry
The lede, as we call it in the journalism biz, sat there silently on the computer screen, like an IED waiting to explode: “… or as he put it, ‘a shvartze,’” it said at the end. The phrase reported accurately the word Rabbi Hershel Schachter used to describe the reason he resisted the idea of…
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News Empire State Shooter Worked at Jewish-Owned Company
The gunman who opened fire outside the Empire State Building, killing one person and injuring several others, was a disgruntled former worker at a nearby company owned by a Syrian Jew, sources told the Forward. Owner Ralph Hazan was upstairs in the offices of Hazan Imports on W. 33rd St. when the suspected shooter, identified…
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Opinion Lawmaker Rebuked after Invoking Genitals and Judaism
Democratic State Rep. Lisa Brown won some local notoriety, and a temporary speaking ban from the Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives for invoking “my vagina” during a passionate floor speech in defense of abortion rights Wednesday. But for all the notice it garnered, Brown’s bodily personalization of the issue was just part of her broader…
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Life Hamas Chief on ‘Noble’ Women Rabbis
The opportunity to interview the second-highest-ranking official in Hamas came suddenly, unexpectedly and at the very worst possible time: just before Passover. The Forward staff was shorthanded. Worse, at home, we were shifting into full Passover house-cleaning mode. I tried hard to argue for doing this any other week. But Stanley L. Cohen, the attorney…
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