Cohen received his BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[1] Cohen has also taught at Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and at Brandeis University.
[1] Cohen is the author of Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot and Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism.
Andrew Flescher has argued that Cohen's work on Tamares and Levinas "makes a compelling case in his own right for the counter-productive nature of violence under all circumstances.
In May 2024, he spoke on a panel "The Black-Jewish Alliance: Its History, Demise, and Possible Futures" at a "Jews and Black Theory" conference at Harvard.