[4][5] Cohen's early intellectual influences include Leonard (Liebel) Fein, Calvin Goldscheider and Charles S.

[5][7] Allegations of a years-long pattern of sexual improprieties toward and harassment of female colleagues and subordinates have been made against Cohen, based on interviews with a number of sources.

Namely, the authors Kate Rosenblatt, Ronit Stahl, and Lila Corwin Berman wrote: "Most troubling about the data-driven mode of Jewish continuity conversations are its patriarchal, misogynistic, and anachronistic assumptions about what is good for the Jews.

We learn that single women, queer people, unwed parents, and childless individuals or couples are all problems.

Jewish communal leaders, in turn, learn [from the studies conducted by Cohen] that the continuity crisis — and its prescriptions about how to regulate primarily women, their bodies, and their sexuality — has its own productive energy that can be harnessed to convince donors to open their pocketbooks and support the very research and programs that prove that the crisis exists.

[11] Following an attempt to rehabilitate Cohen's reputation through a series of scholarly gatherings, which included Cohen nearly three years after the allegations of sexual harassment against him, the Association for Jewish Studies Women's Caucus issued a statement condemning such activity on March 23, 2021 as being in conflict with the core values of the Association of Jewish Studies regarding diversity and inclusion, ethical conduct, and good faith.

[19] Consequently, he has challenged the value of investing in outreach to the intermarried and prefers a strategy of encouraging Jewish in-marriage and the conversion of non-Jewish spouses and partners to Judaism.

", revealed that a twenty thousand dollar wage gap disparity persists between the salaries of men and women working for Jewish organizations.