Larry Cohler-Esses is an American journalist and political writer. He has worked for the Jewish magazine
the Forward
''The Forward'' (), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ''The New York Times'' reported that Set ...
.
He is married to
Dianne Cohler-Esses
Dianne Cohler-Esses, who grew up in Brooklyn,New York, is the first Syrian-Jewish woman to become a rabbi. She was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1995. She has since worked as an administrator and educator for many institutions in ...
.
Career
He joined the staff of
the Forward
''The Forward'' (), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ''The New York Times'' reported that Set ...
in December 2008. Previously, he served as Editor-at-Large for
the Jewish Week
''New York Jewish Week'' (formerly ''The Jewish Week'') is a weekly independent community newspaper targeted towards the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area.
History
In March 2016, ''The Jewish Week'' announced its partners ...
, 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. He has written extensively on the Arab-Jewish relations both in the United States and the Middle East.
Cohler-Esses is a founding board member of ''
Shtetl
or ( ; , ; Grammatical number#Overview, pl. ''shtetelekh'') is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish populations which Eastern European Jewry, existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The t ...
'', a media outlet covering the ''Haredi Jewish'' community that launched in 2023.
Trip to Iran
In August 2015, The Forward received wide attention for reporting from Iran
at a charged moment in American politics, as the U.S. Congress was ramping up to a vote on an accord reached the month before to limit Tehran's nuclear ability in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions. Larry Cohler-Esses was, in the words of The New York Times, "The first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication to be given an Iranian visa since 1979".
Awards
He received several Laurels Awards from the Columbia Journalism Review, and two New York Press Association awards. The subject along with Lili Bayer won the
Society of Professional Journalists 2018 Phi Sigma Chi award for non-daily investigative reporting on former White House anti-terrorism aide, Sebastian Gorka.
[Goldiner, Dave. (23 April 2018). "Forward Scoops Top Prize For Investigation Of Sebastian Gorka"]
Forward website
Retrieved 23 April 2018.
See also
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Orly Azoulay
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Annika Hernroth-Rothstein
References
20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male non-fiction writers
American political writers
Jewish American non-fiction writers
21st-century American Jews
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