Martin Samuel Cohen is rabbi of the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in Roslyn, New York.
Cohen was educated at the City University of New York and at Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a rabbi and received his Ph.D. in ancient Judaism.
At that time he also studied the legal writings of Maimonides together with his friend Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem, currently the director of the Gershom Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel.
From 1997 to 2000, Cohen was chairman of the Publications Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly, and he then became chair of the editorial board of the quarterly journal Conservative Judaism.
In April 2012, the Rabbinical Assembly published a new guide to Jewish law and practice, The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews, edited by Rabbi Cohen and Rabbi Michael Katz.