Phil M. Cohen

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Aug 18, 2022, 8:03 AM

A Promising Podcast

So sometime every Thursday, usually late afternoon, I pick up my phone, go to the podcast app, and search for what is without a doubt my favorite podcast. And yes, every Thursday steady as sunrise, I see this week’s...

Jul 7, 2022, 3:29 PM

Shtisel Visits Robinson’s Arch for a bit of Mayhem

A parable. One Shabbat morning not long ago in New York City, a group of young Haredi boys, teens, and young men stampeded into the sanctuaries of Temple Emanuel and the Park Avenue Synagogue where a total of three b’nai...

Jun 29, 2022, 6:53 AM

How Jewish is Ben Shapiro?

Ben Shapiro, the kippah-wearing conservative pundit, undoubtedly finds himself in anti-abortion heaven along with the many thousands of “pro-lifers” who are reveling in Dobbs, the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Laws have been passed and are...

May 18, 2021, 11:25 AM

Hamas and the Long Game

I’m supposed to be working on my novel today. But as I sit in a coffee shop here in Columbia, Missouri, my phone keeps lighting up with another text from one David Cozocaru who appears to be tasked with inundating...

Apr 10, 2020, 6:50 PM

Virtual Sedering

My first virtual seder this Pesach was with my small congregation, Temple B’Nai Israel, in Albany, Georgia. I’ve been their rabbi now going on three years, living in Greensboro, North Carolina and commuting bi-weekly by plane to this small...

Mar 24, 2020, 1:45 PM

A Dogma for Our Time

For years, I’ve been preaching the unity of humankind based on the concluding verses of the first chapter of the book of Genesis. “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” says God. And God creates man...

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About Me

Phil M. Cohen is a rabbi, author, novelist with interests in bioethics, Israel, fiction, Bible, and Jewish thought. His novel Nick Bones Underground won a Finalist award in the category of Debut Novel from the Jewish Book Council..