Rabbi Aryeh Cohen

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen serves as a Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University and a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. At the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University Rabbi Aryeh Cohen teaches courses in Talmud, Jewish ethics, and social justice.

Moreover, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen is also the Rabbi in Residence for Bend the Arc: Jewish Action in Southern California.

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen holds a PhD from Brandeis University, and a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was ordinated as a rabbi by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

The intersection of Talmudic discussions and contemporary issues of justice are the topics Rabbi Aryeh Cohen’s academic work focuses on.

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen has written two books, Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism (2012) and Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law, and the Poetics of Sugyot (1998).

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen also writes topical essays on domestic social justice issue. Some of the topics of his essays include Islamophobia, racism and racial justice, immigration, housing and homelessness, as well as on Israel/Palestine.