Jack Cohen

Who was Jack Cohen?

Jack J. Cohen was an American Reconstructionist rabbi, educator, philosopher and author. Cohen held a PhD from Columbia University in the philosophy of education. In 1943, he was ordained as a rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and, soon after, started to teach courses there. He was also the director of the Hillel Foundation at the Hebrew University for 23 years. Cohen was one of the distinguished students of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, and was one of the founders of “Mevakshei Derech”, a synagogue in Israel.