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All content by Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Alon Leichman in action. (Photo: Margo Sugarman / Israel Baseball)

They helped build Israel’s first baseball field. Now their son is pitching at the Olympics.

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published July 28, 2021

Tending wounds and distributing supplies: Minneapolis Jews care for a city in turmoil

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published May 31, 2020

Deborah Nagler, 66, pioneered use of technology in Jewish education

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published May 11, 2020

Mindella Lamm, 88, wife of former Yeshiva University president

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published April 20, 2020

Helene Aylon, 89, feminist artist whose work reflected her evolution as a woman and a Jew

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published April 8, 2020

‘The Shrink Next Door’: New revelations about the Jewiest, screwiest podcast ever

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published June 18, 2019
Abby Stein, left, and April Baskin. Stein photo: Debra Nussbaum Cohen; Baskin photo: URJ

Why 2 Jewish women say they joined the Women’s March steering committee

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published January 16, 2019
Lewis Aron, left, founding IARPP president, and Steven Kuchuck, the current president, at the group’s 2018 conference in New York City. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)

Psychology association faces pressure to boycott Israel

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published June 19, 2018

NY hospital says Hasidic group sought inappropriate role in health care decisions

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published May 25, 2018

How an Orthodox politician is standing in the way of Andrew Cuomo’s national ambitions

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published May 4, 2018

Starbucks denies speculation that it ‘demoted’ ADL in its anti-bias training

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published May 2, 2018

Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published April 17, 2018
“The mutual influence has been enormous,” said Blu Greenberg, the founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)

Israel at 70: What women in Israel and the West learned from each other

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published April 12, 2018
Nachliel Selavan giving a tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where a Roman-era crocodile sculpture is displayed in the moat near the Egyptian Temple of Dendur. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)

A tour guide uncovers Passover secrets in the Met Museum’s Egyptian wing

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published March 20, 2018

Women’s March renounces Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, but supports a leader who embraced him

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published March 6, 2018

German recognition brings closure to Algerian Jews who suffered in the Holocaust

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published February 7, 2018

Germany recognizes Algerian Jews as Holocaust survivors

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published February 5, 2018

These philanthropists want to find the next big Jewish idea through angel investing

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published January 10, 2018

Where Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton may (or may not) spend Rosh Hashanah

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published October 2, 2016

A changing Crown Heights marks 25 years since Brooklyn ‘pogrom’

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published August 15, 2016
Morena Baccarin, left, as Rachel and Rebecca Ferguson as Dinah from the Lifetime miniseries “The Red Tent.” (Joey L./Lifetime)

‘The Red Tent’ gets new life in gauzy Lifetime movie

Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Published December 2, 2014
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