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Rachel Cohen is former editorial intern at Open Zion and a current intern at The Washington Monthly. She is a senior at Johns Hopkins University. Follow her on Twitter: @rmc031.

articles/2013/11/26/what-pro-israel-college-organizations-really-need-campaigns-supporting-a-two-state-solution/j-street-opening-plenary-openz_nshcc2
Campus Politics

What Pro-Israel College Organizations Really Need: Two-State Solution Activism

Pro-Israel advocates on U.S. college campuses cannot support the two-state solution in name only; we must all work to provide support for the Kerry peace initiative, say Rachel Cohen and Jacob Plitman of the J Street U National Student Board.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/11/11/open-zion-created-a-valuable-community-and-is-closing-prematurely/OZ_crisis_of_zionism_cxicqv
Discussion Interrupted

Open Zion Created a Valuable Community and is Closing Prematurely

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/08/12/far-right-pro-israel-group-rallies-against-vaunted-new-york-jewish-institution/92y-protest-openz_pu1q74
Big Tent?

Far-Right Pro-Israel Group Rallies Against Vaunted New York Jewish Institution

A far-right Jewish group holds regular protests against a New York Jewish institution for hosting figures harshly critical of Israel, Rachel Cohen reports.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/07/31/how-tim-kaine-can-boost-the-peace-process/sarlin-kaine_ptarfr
A New Chairman

How Tim Kaine Can Boost the Peace Process

Tim Kaine will serve as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Middle East subcommittee. This is good news for the peace process, says Rachel Cohen.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/07/24/what-should-we-expect-from-martin-indyk/indyk-openz_qns2wc
Paper Trail

What Should We Expect From Martin Indyk?

Rachel Cohen takes a look at Martin Indyk's past statements on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking for ideas on how he might lead future negotiations.

Rachel Cohen

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articles/2013/07/12/how-the-arab-spring-keeps-sending-hamas-packing/morsi-hamas-openz_mybfty
No Direction Home

Arab Spring Keeps Sending Hamas Packing

The Muslim Brotherhood's rise was supposed to give Hamas a boost. Rachel Cohen on how Morsi's fall sent the group packing—again.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/07/03/andrew-pochter-was-not-delusional/130703-witw-tahrir-tease_p3mtye
Egypt

Andrew Pochter Was Not 'Delusional'

The death of 21-year-old Andrew Pochter in Egypt was a tragedy. Some prominent Israeli settlers say he was wrong to go to Egypt over Israel in the first place. Rachel Cohen responds.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/07/02/seeing-it-for-myself-injustice-in-the-south-hebron-hills0/south_hebron_hills_jkufr0
20 Years Into Oslo

Seeing It For Myself: Injustice In The South Hebron Hills

Rachel Cohen writes about B'Tselem's recent report on Area C, the imminent court ruling on Palestinian residents in the South Hebron Hills, and her trip to the West Bank.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/06/19/why-jews-should-stop-worrying-about-intermarriage/marriage-response-fields_eicoes
Marriage Equality

Why Jews Should Stop Worrying About Intermarriage

Is the Jewish intermarriage conversation deficient? Alienating? Offensive? Rachel Cohen says yes.

Rachel Cohen

articles/2013/06/18/no-justice-for-wasfi-kabha/palestinian-prisoners-freed-ephron_jybhyb
Profile

The Administrative Detentions of Wasfi Kabha

Wasfi Kabha, the former Palestinian Minister of State, has been in and out of Israeli jail for the last few years without ever having been charged for a crime. Why? Rachel Cohen investigates.

Rachel Cohen

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