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Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning reporter who currently serves as New York correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. She has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York magazine and New York Observer.

Akiva and Chava Hart and their six children converted to Judaism on Nov. 5, 2023. Then the married couple got married again in a Jewish ceremony. (Photo/Levi Lehman)
Posted inTV & Film

‘House of Lev’: A former hip hop dancer and a makeup artist document their new Orthodox life online

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen November 29, 2023November 29, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. When LaDerryl Hart went to Israel as a dancer […]

The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the group where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
Posted inU.S.

More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Forward May 13, 2022
Jennifer Spitzer, New Israel Fund vice president of finance and operations, is the manager of the organization's new new donor-advised fund.
Posted inPhilanthropy

New Israel Fund launches unique home for progressive donor-advised funds

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen November 11, 2019November 11, 2019
Lewis Aron (left) founding IARPP president, and Steven Kuchuck, the current president, at the group's 2018 conference in New York City (Photo/JTA-Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
Posted inNews

Vocal minority in psychology association pledges to boycott Tel Aviv gathering

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by JTA and Debra Nussbaum Cohen June 19, 2018June 19, 2018
Nachliel Selavan giving a tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Photo/JTA-Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
Posted inHistory

Tour guide uncovers Passover secrets in Met’s Egyptian wing

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen March 29, 2018April 2, 2018
Posted inNews

Rabbi Robert Kirschner apologizes

Debra Nussbaum CohenNatalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Natalie Weinstein October 18, 1996June 12, 2026
Posted inNews

Jewish women isolated from community despite advances, new study finds

Debra Nussbaum CohenNatalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Natalie Weinstein November 24, 1995August 27, 2024

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