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Jeffrey Cohen retired from the rabbinate in January 2006 after a distinguished career,
the last 20 years of which he was rabbi of Stanmore Synagogue in N.W. London, with the largest membership of any Orthodox congregation in Europe.
Rabbi Cohen has always combined scholarship with his rabbinate, and has served as lecturer at
Jews' College, London and at the University of Glasgow. He has also been a scholar in residence
on both coasts of America. He strongly believes that an educated rabbinate is an enlightened
and tolerant rabbinate, and that this is the way to eradicate obscurantism. Hence his strong
belief in a university education for rabbis, and his vocal denunciation of "the powers that
be" that presided over the demise of Jews' College, the only academic training-ground for the
Orthodox rabbinate.
Rabbi Cohen has been hailed as a champion of Modern-Orthodoxy, and has strongly promoted that
philosophy, for some forty years, within the Anglo-Jewish rabbinate, in the pages of the Anglo-Jewish
press, and in his own writings. In that capacity, he was invited, at its inception, to become the
rabbinic adviser and a governor of Immanuel College.
Rabbi Cohen hopes to spend his retirement in further literary pursuits, but he is also happy to
provide help to others wishing to avail themselves of his literary and rabbinic skills or to
synagogues in need of a lecturer, a scholar-in-residence, or other occasional rabbinic services.
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Please browse this site to read further about Rabbi Cohen and obtain information about his many publications over the years, as well as the rabbinic and literary services he is able to offer. There is also a booking form for these various services.
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