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 ADL: Presidential Aide Must Disavow Anti-Semitism of Hungarian Hate Groups
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sebastian Gorka, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, to clearly disavow “the message and outlook” of anti-Semitic organizations such as those he worked with while living in Hungary. Gorka, whose political activities with veterans of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party and other anti-Semitic organizations and activists were detailed in…
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News 4 Things You Need To Know About Sebastian Gorka’s Ties To Hungary’s Anti-Semitic Far Right
Here are the four things you need to know about Trump’s deputy assistant and his ties to Hungary’s anti-Semitic far right. 1) Sebastian Gorka launched his own political party with prominent veterans of Jobbik, a far-right faction with a long history of anti-Semitism. Gorka, whom Trump appointed as a top aide on January 20—the day…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Israel’s Messianic Settler Movement
Read the Original Articles Here President-Elect Donald Trump’s appointment of David Friedman, a supporter of the radical right-wing settler movement in Israel, as his ambassador to the Jewish state has given a huge shot in the arm to exclusively Jewish settlements in the West Bank whose expansion up to now Washington has opposed as illegitimate…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Judaism Grows in Africa
Read the Original Stories Here From Madagascar to Zimbabwe, Jews, would-be Jews and thousands of Africans who are simply Jewish-curious are turning up. The phenomenon is continent-wide. but nowhere is the story more amazing than in Nigeria, where the Igbo—at 30 million people, one of the country’s major ethnic groups—have long seen themselves as descended…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Terrorism and the Palestinian Authority
Read the Original Story Here Does the Palestinian Authority subsidize terrorists? And if so, do American funds, which help to keep the P.A. afloat, effectively do so, too? That’s a question that has been kicking around for years, in particular within right-wing circles, where activists have long lambasted both America and Israel for failing to…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 On Campus
Read the Original Article Here College campuses today can whiplash many young Jews with two seemingly contradictory big ideas: the importance of openness, equality and non-discrimination; and the importance of taking pride in and asserting the values that stem from one’s own cultural background. An investigation by the Forward in September demonstrated that the tension…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Standing at Standing Rock
Read the Original Stories Here Standing Rock, the North Dakota encampment where thousands of Native Americans and their supporters this year staged a stand against Big Oil, attracted many Jews in 2016. One, 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky, almost lost her arm; an explosion that activists said came from a stun grenade tossed by local law enforcement…
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The Forward's Top Stories of 2016 Abortion Rights
Read the Original Story This year saw the Supreme Court issue its most consequential abortion rights decision of the last quarter century. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt the court ruled that the restrictive plethora of laws and rules that some states were issuing to regulate abortion—purportedly to ensure the health and safety of women—were…
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