Rabbi Jonathan Cohen PhD
Dr. Jonathan Cohen, an Israeli-born scholar, was appointed Assistant Professor in Talmud and Halakhic Literature at HUC-JIR, Cincinnati, in July 1998, and Director of the Hebrew Union College-University of Cincinnati Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems in January 2000. In November 2003, he was awarded the Rabbi Michael Matuson Professorship for Emerging Scholars, and he was named Affiliate Member of the Laboratoire Des etudes sur les Monothéismes of the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in August 2005.
Dr. Cohen's interests include history of law, law and religion, and, in particular, the evolution of Jewish law in Christian Europe. He read law at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and earned his Ph.D. (Law) from the University of Liverpool. His research focused on the evolution of restitution as a civil remedy in medieval Jewish law. At the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies he was the first David Patterson Junior Fellow in Jewish Law.
He has recently written on the status of married women in bigamous Jewish households, on the evolution of Jewish welfare law, on rabbinic perceptions of Jewish solidarity, and on Jewish law and modernity. Dr. Cohen is currently editing a volume of studies in Jewish commercial law that will be published by the Jewish Law Association, and is writing on the development of halakhic writing and reasoning.
Sessions in which Rabbi Jonathan Cohen PhD participates
- An Ethics of Social Justice and Repair: Values and Strategies Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ellington Ballroom - Salon E
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Recent experience both in the Unites States and in other countries has occasionally undermined notions of progress towards increasing inclusion, ac...
- Workshop
- Expressing the Minority Opinion: Between Privilege and Obligation (This workshop will be in Hebrew) Loews Atlanta Hotel - Ardmore
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This workshop will be in Hebrew הבעת דעת מיעוט: בין זכות לחובה אחד מסימניה הבולטים של הספרות התלמודית ה...
- Workshop