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Larry Cohler-Esses

Larry Cohler-Esses

Larry Cohler-Esses is the Forward’s former assistant managing editor and news editor. Previously, he served as editor-at-large for the Jewish Week, an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, and as a staff writer for the Jewish Week as well as the Washington Jewish Week. Larry has written extensively on the Arab-Jewish relations both in the United States and the Middle East.

People celebrate during a rally over the killing of former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khameini at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco, March 1, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inOpinion

Can the U.S. really bring democracy to Iran?

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

This story was originally published in the Forward. The protesters at a January rally I attended in New York City’s Washington Square Park were loud and raw throated as they […]

Yitzhak Shamir, then Israel's foreign minister, in 1984. (Photo/Yoni Salinger-Dan Hadani collection-National Library of Israel-The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection CC BY 4.0)
Posted inOpinion

In 1991, Iraq attacked. Israel’s far-right leader didn’t retaliate. Is Netanyahu capable of the same wise choice?

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses April 15, 2024
Veterans of the Azov battalion march beneath flags bearing the Nazi wolfsangel symbol in Kyiv in 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Goo3 CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say.

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses August 3, 2023August 3, 2023
A woman dressed in the uniform of the old Romanian Communist youth group gleefully lampooned the Ceaușescu era during Purim festivities in Bucharest this week. (Photo/Forward - Larry Cohler-Esses
Posted inWorld

Purim in wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward March 17, 2022March 17, 2022
Israel Sabag (right) handles a busload of Ukrainian refugees that also included an elderly Pekinese (left). (Photo/Forward)
Posted inWorld

Meet Israel Sabag, the man finding shelter for Ukrainian refugees in Romania — and their pets

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward March 15, 2022
An American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee refugee relief tent along the Ukraine-Romania border. (Photo/Forward-Larry Cohler-Esses)
Posted inWorld

‘Our city is totally destroyed’: One refugee’s story as she crosses the border from Ukraine

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward March 14, 2022
Children in Afghanistan attend class outdoors. (Photo/Guy Lawson-USAID)
Posted inUncategorized

Reporting from Afghanistan, I learned just how little we Americans knew

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward August 19, 2021

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