Steve Cohn, at The Blogs

Jul 2, 2024, 4:16 AM

Resilience: A Journey Through Jewish History Jewish history, spanning millennia, is a testament to the enduring resilience of a people who have faced countless adversities yet remained steadfast in their identity, faith, and traditions. From ancient times to the modern...

Jun 17, 2024, 9:37 PM

Antisemitism must be included in Antiracism

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Addressing Racism and Antisemitism: A Collective Responsibility During the first week of October 2023 I was on an island, no it was not Manhattan, it was in the Caribbean. I was reading "How to be an Anti-Racist" by Ibram X...

May 21, 2024, 12:20 AM

The Vital Need for Therapy for Victims of Antisemitism

Addressing the Vital Need for Therapy for Victims of Antisemitism The current wave of antisemitism was sparked by the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. Although the majority of the victims were Israeli civilians, public reaction worldwide quickly and inexplicably...

May 13, 2024, 9:48 PM

Addressing the mental health impacts of campus demonstrations

Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the Israel-Hamas War and the Demonstrations at Universities on Jewish Students In recent weeks, universities across the globe have become arenas for impassioned debates and demonstrations surrounding the Israel-Hamas War. While freedom of speech...

Sep 8, 2023, 12:14 AM

Five things I learned while mourning

My mother passed away. I observed shiva and shloshim as best as I could. The shloshim was intense, coinciding with the 3 weeks, as well as the 17 Tammuz and ending on the morning of Tisha B'Av with the...

Aug 16, 2023, 5:27 AM

Shiva: A Place in time

My mother passed away. It was simultaneously surreal and too real. I had visited her continually in the hospital for 4 weeks, for me it was four weeks of hell. I will always be grateful to Chabad whose local...

Aug 21, 2020, 8:49 AM

Peace and the foundations of Jimi’s Sand Castles

Jimi Hendrix wrote the song, "Castles made of the Sand", in which he described his childhood experiences. His father alternated between being unemployed and underemployed, the family suffered and the marriage ended. It is a tragic example of the...

Aug 11, 2020, 9:47 PM

Israel Advocacy and its discontents

I was a student at the time. I sat with a friend in the quad in front of the student center. It was a beautiful Spring day. We were enjoying a break between classes. The quad was a known...

Aug 4, 2020, 9:24 PM

The other intifada – media coverage and media bias

The mass movement of settlers into the newly occupied territory began in 1975, and it's been a contentious issue ever since. The people already living in these territories had launched an armed struggle in 1973, two years before the...

Jul 28, 2020, 9:38 PM

Intersectionality: Is it good for the Jews?

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Intersectionality has been defined as "the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage." (1) Intersectionality is...

About Me

Steve Cohn, is the President and Founder of Belltown Analytics, and also serves as the CIO of Kesher Shalom. His technical and financial background led to a 5 year consulting engagement at the United Nations, where he deepened his understanding of conflict resolution, and gained an in depth exposure to global issues. The experience also intensified his life long interest in issues involving Israel and the global Jewish community. In the private sector, through Belltown Analytics he helps small business improve their web presence and gain meaningful insights into their financials through data science tools. More information can be found at https//www.belltown-analytics.com In the public sector, he is CIO at Kesher Shalom, a non profit organization providing services to those affected by the recent rise in antisemitism. More information can be found at https//www.keshershalom.com