Rabbi Michael M. Cohen
Rabbi Emeritus, Israel Congregation of Manchester
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen was born in Indiana and raised in New Jersey and is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A.History-Honors) and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served for 10 years as the Rabbi of the Israel Congregation in Manchester Center, Vermont, where presently he is the Rabbi Emeritus. He is a past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
A member of the founding faculty of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies on Kibbutz Ketura in 1996, he returned there in 2000 with his family and is now the Executive Director of their North American office. Rabbi Cohen has had a long interest in the environment and is also interested in the intersection of Judaism with popular culture. He is also the co-founder of the Green Zionists Alliance, the first environmental slate to run a list of delegates in a Zionist Congress Election. He has had articles published in The Jerusalem Post, Ha'aretz, Al-Quds, Bible Review, The Jewish Bible Quarterly,Kerem, Living Text, and a number of Jewish American newspapers. He also contributed to Siddur Kol Ha Neshamah, A Night of Questions Haggadah, and Sacred Intentions.
Related articles:
Fostering Peace in a Land of War
Feeding the Enemy
Omer Teaching: Beyond the Human Perspective
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