Rabbi Jack Cohen, EdM
Rabbi Cohen serves as the Director of Education for Olami North America, where he works closely with Jewish outreach professionals on innovative educational approaches that resonate with 21st-century Jews. Rabbi Cohen has been teaching and mentoring individuals, and speaking for groups of all sizes, for over ten years, building a broad ecosystem of unique opportunities for engagement in Judaism intellectually, emotionally, and socially, in his present position and in his former position as Director of Education for MEOR Manhattan. He maintains a close connection with his mentors, Rav Beryl Gershenfeld, Rosh Yeshiva of Machon Shlomo and Machon Yaakov, and founder of MEOR, and Rav Immanuel Bernstein, renowned author and lecturer. Rabbi Cohen learned in the Mirrer Yeshiva and Yad Saadia Kollel in Jerusalem. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master in Education (EdM) from Harvard.
