Join Rabbi Emily Cohen and Ithaca College students for conversation and a live podcast recording of "Jew Too?" a podcast celebrating the growing diversity of the American Jewish family.Join Rabbi Emily Cohen and Ithaca College students for conversation and a live podcast recording of "Jew Too?" a podcast celebrating the growing diversity of the American Jewish family.
We'll get to know the stories of students who are Jewish and whose identities are intersectional, hearing about their joys, struggles, and places of curiosity within the multitude of identities that they hold.
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Gathering Hall - Muller Chapel
Rabbi Emily Cohen is a San Francisco-rooted, East Coast-raised, Twin Cities-educated graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. Her relatively complex geographic history informs her approach to the rabbinate: connecting people to something or someone that deepens their experience of existence. An artist and educator, her professional experience ranges from corralling preschoolers into baking challah to herding teenagers on wilderness treks to leading adult education classes on Judaism and Social Justice.
Emily has worked with the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Bryn Mawr College Hillel, HIAS Pennsylvania, and Stanford University Hospital, where she completed chaplaincy training. On the side, she’s crafted Passover parodies (“The Hamilton Haggadah”), produced a podcast (“Jew Too? Tales of the Mixed Multitude”) and written many a new song. Before rabbinical school, Emily worked with an NGO in rural Yunnan, China, and with AmeriCorps in Minneapolis. At Macalester College, where she completed her B.A. in History, alongside robust studies in Music and Mandarin, she was a founding member of the Multifaith Council. Emily now lives in Brooklyn and is delighted to share that it feels like home.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20200124092259349