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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward First Survey Of All U.S. Jewish Federations Finds No Illegalities, But Still Cites Some Problems
Larry Cohler-Esses A first-ever comprehensive survey of all Jewish federations in the United States has found no evidence of illegalities at them but has identified some with financial practices that the study characterizes as suggesting they are run “less like volunteer organizations and more like family firms.” The review, conducted over the course of a…
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Fast Forward Gorka Compares Hillary Clinton To The Rosenbergs, Who Were Executed For Treason
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s former counter-terrorism aide, compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to 1950s communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Thursday for her role in the approval of an international uranium deal. Speaking on Fox News’ Sean Hannity program, Gorka appeared to suggest that, like the Rosenbergs, who were executed, Clinton, too, should…
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News This Math Teacher From Kansas Has Sparked A Huge Legal Feud Over BDS
All Esther Koontz wanted to do was train fellow Kansas math teachers to be more effective in the classroom. Everything was set: She had completed the special training program. She had signed up to help schools in need of assistance. She’d even gotten requests from several schools via the state Department of Education and had…
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News George Soros Denounced By Hungary As ‘Satan’ Seeking To Destroy ‘Christian Europe’
George Soros is “Satan.” And his agenda is one that “from its heart hates Christian Europe’s traditions and civilization.” The word “Jew” was never uttered by two high-profile Hungarian officials in their recent remarks attacking the Hungarian-American hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist. But their message, redolent of classical anti-Semitism, rang out from the country’s parliament…
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Fast Forward Gorka In Israel: ‘We’re Losing The War On Terrorism’
Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka told an Israeli audience that America is losing the war on terrorism, even as it helps sweep ISIS out of Iraq and Syria. In a keynote address Monday to the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel, the former counter-terrorism advisor to President Donald Trump, who recently left the White House amid…
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News Gorka’s Ouster Caps Defeat Of Nationalists In Fight For Trump’s White House
The departure of presidential aide Sebastian Gorka from the White House Friday, just one week after that of his mentor, Stephen Bannon, capped a crucial victory for military generals in the Trump administration. As Gorka himself put it in his August 25 letter to President Trump, “[G]iven recent events, it is clear to me that…
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