Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
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)
June 21, 2018, 11:40 am
Psychology association faces pressure to boycott Israel
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
A view of the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Center at NYU Langone Hospital in 2014. (Governor Andrew Cuomo/Flickr)
May 24, 2018, 11:40 am
Chasidic volunteers, kicked out of a major N.Y. hospital, blame a clash over medical ethics
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
April 19, 2018, 11:40 am
Israeli, Western women learning
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
The Temple of Dendur is one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most well-known artifacts.
March 29, 2018, 7:40 pm
A tour guide uncovers Passover secrets in the Met Museum’s Egyptian wing
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
From left: Philanthropist Barbara Dobkin; Deborah Meyer, the founder and CEO of Moving Traditions; Rabbi Joanna Samuels, executive of the Manny Cantor Center; and Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman, director of Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College speaking at a town hall meeting in New York on sexual harassment in the Jewish community on January 25, 2018. (Aimee Rubensteen/JWFNY)
March 1, 2018, 11:40 am
For women in Jewish fundraising, harassment is an occupational hazard
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
New York City Mayor David Dinkins, fourth from right, looking on while a chasidic Jew and a black man argue during riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. (Anthony Pescatore/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
August 18, 2016, 11:52 am
A changing Crown Heights
Checking in 25 years after the Brooklyn ‘pogrom’
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
Members of the 2016 rabbinical class of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion read their class prayer at an ordination ceremony at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May. (HUC-JIR via Facebook)
June 2, 2016, 11:41 am
Small word change a big deal for Reform women rabbis
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
Orthodox activists, like these protesting outside a Brooklyn yeshiva, are asking institutions to do more to report and investigate allegations of child sexual and physical abuse.
May 5, 2016, 4:49 pm
Orthodox activists and victims press N.Y. to change reporting laws on sex abuse
By Debra Nussbaum-Cohen
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