Jack Cohen (rabbi)

Jack Cohen (Hebrew: ג'ק כהן; March 21, 1919– April 16, 2012) was an Israeli-American Reconstructionist rabbi, educator, philosopher and author.

Cohen was Honorary Chairman at Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood[2] and director of the Hillel Foundation at the Hebrew University for 23 years.

Cohen was an outstanding student, he graduated from high school at the age of 15 and immediately started his studies for a bachelor's degree in podiatry.

In 1940, Jack Cohen graduated from Brooklyn College DPM and the same year, at JTS, received a Doctor of Hebrew Letters.

[4] He held this job until 1952 when was appointed as educational director of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), the first Reconstructionist congregation.

[5] Jack Cohen taught at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and was awarded the Keter Shem Tov and a Doctor of Divinity degree by RRC in 2000.