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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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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Former Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman is viewed by many as a Jewish leader with a unique common man’s touch. But that has not hindered his twice-yearly visits, over two decades, to the exclusive Golden Door, a secluded spa on 600 acres of hills, meadows and gardens 35 miles north of San Diego, from where…
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News Abe Foxman: Anti-Semitism ‘Sewer Covers Are Off’ — But I’m Optimistic on Trump
“The sun is still shining,” Abe Foxman boomed over the phone from Southern California, where it was “men’s week” at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, about 35 miles north of San Diego. It was an overcast afternoon in New York. But Foxman was paying one of his twice yearly visits last week to…
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News The Mexican Jew Who Helped Negotiate NAFTA Remains Proud of It. Is He Just An Elitist?
For the so-called “alt-right,” Jaime Zabludovsky Kuper may seem like a ready-made stereotype. A scion of one of Mexico’s most prominent Jewish families, Zabludovsky is a longtime member of Mexico’s elite. Holder of a doctorate in economics from Yale University, he is a former under secretary for international trade negotiations and a former senior economist…
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Israel News Is Jewish Oligarch the Cyber Link Between Donald Trump and Russia?
Is a Russian Jewish oligarch with Israeli citizenship and close ties to both Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu running a secret cyber-communications channel between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian authorities? That question, about billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is at the heart of a new and detailed investigative report by Franklin Foer, the former editor of…
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Fast Forward In a First, a Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to $2.1 Million Child Sex Abuse Settlement
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a prominent school on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway with…
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News Iran ‘Ransom’ Flap Sparks A Battle of Dueling Definitions
“Ransom” or “strategically timed escrow payment?” That’s the question Obama administration critics and defenders were clashing over following the administration’s acknowledgement of a link between its plane shipment of cash to Iran last January, hours after Tehran released three American prisoners. The Republican Jewish Coalition was one of the first groups out of the box…
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Israel News Israel’s Stav Shaffir Fights To Keep Hope Alive
Stav Shaffir is still idealistic. A year-and-a-half after entering the Knesset, following her co-leadership of Israel’s largest ever mass protests against economic inequality, the 31-year-old redhead’s passion still shines brightly through wide grey-blue eyes. During a stop-in at the Forward Friday while visiting the United States, Shaffir, who is now a member of the Labor…
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