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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News Did hate or derangement drive a onetime knife salesman to stab a rabbi?
There are many questions that surround the disastrous stay of Khaled Awad in the United States, which culminated on a grey Boston afternoon, when he pulled out a knife and plunged it, nine times, into a local rabbi. Why did a Florida judge release Awad less than three months before the attack? Why did Awad…
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Opinion Reporting from Afghanistan, I learned just how little we Americans knew
Just weeks after U.S. forces and their allies in the Northern Alliance had routed the Taliban from most of Afghanistan, the NY Daily News assigned me to accompany an odd delegation to the country on a 24-hour visit. It was Dec. 2001, and unlimited new prospects still seemed possible for the ancient land. I took…
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News The Gender Gap At Jewish Non-Profits Is Bad — And Getting Worse
A quick look at the Forward’s salary survey this year confirms a longstanding and obvious truth: The Jewish communal world is sorely lacking in women leaders. The only real question is, is it getting better, or worse? By the most basic of measures — the number of women in leadership positions — the answer is,…
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Israel News No Visa Waiver For Israel—Until It Treats U.S. Muslims Equally
Israel’s longtime dream of its citizens visiting America without visas seemed near fruition Monday, after an announcement from Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s Minister of Justice. But U.S. and Israeli officials on Tuesday bluntly poured cold water on Shaked’s suggestion that success was close—and part of the reason is U.S. objections to Israel’s unequal treatment of Muslim…
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News ‘Poland’s Charlottesville’ Has Jews Rattled
A huge Independence Day march organized by far-right, racist forces in Poland came off peacefully Saturday for the first time in years. And this has Jews in Poland more worried than ever. “They’re learning to hide who they are,” said Michael Schudrich, Poland’s American-born chief rabbi. “Don’t ask me if it’s better or worse that…
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Breaking News Congress Is Trying To Decide Who’s An Anti-Semite
Barry Trachtenberg, director of Wake Forest College’s Jewish studies program, wanted members of Congress to know that statements equating Israel’s actions to Nazi Germany’s are not necessarily anti-Semitic. “In fact,” he told House Judiciary Committee members, “comparisons of foreign leaders and countries to Nazism are made regularly.” The topic at hand during a Tuesday meeting…
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Breaking News Gorka Backs Out Of Critic’s Challenge To A Pistol Duel On K Street
A lot of people seem to go apoplectic over Sebastian Gorka, the former counter-terrorism aide to President Trump with ties to anti-Semitic, far-right forces in Hungary. But what pushed self-described “20-something struggling journalist” Caleb Ecarma over the edge was the sight of Gorka’s “sh-tty four cylinder Mustang” parked illegally on a sidewalk in Arlington, Virginia….
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News The Holocaust Activist Who’s Warning Poland — About Danger Posed By Jews
In Poland these days, the head of the country’s highest-profile Holocaust remembrance group is warning Poles that attacks on their country are coming from the “leftist Jewish media.” He says that the stories of Poles who actually helped Jews during World War II were not told until he arrived, despite decades of work in this…
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