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Aryeh Cohen

Aryeh Cohen is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University and Rabbi in Residence at Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. He is author most recently of Justice in the City.

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Religion Dispatches

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging.
Aryeh Cohen
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Religion Dispatches

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

Time to take responsiblity—peacefully—for global well-being.
Aryeh Cohen
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Upside Down Judaism: Why Are Progressives Studying Talmud?

The first decade of the twenty-first century seems to have upended the Jewish world. What does it mean that conservatives, and some Orthodox, have begun to agitate for social justice, while progressives, traditionally secular, are “taking back the texts”?
Aryeh Cohen
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