Born and educated (for the most part) in Brooklyn, New York, Mark P Cohen made Aliyah from Oakland, California in July 2025. He taught constitutional privacy law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco and maintained an active legal practice in the Bay Area for thirty-three years where he represented a wide variety of religious and nonprofit institutions among other characters and companies in civil and criminal arenas. In the aftermath of October 7, Mark helped co-found the Oakland Jewish Alliance, a civil rights organization formed to address the alarming rise of Jew hatred and anti-Jewish discrimination in Oakland. Mark also posts regularly on Substack as the Red Heifer. https://markpcohen.substack.com/