Jeffrey Cohan will be the Guest Speaker at Shabbat Services on Saturday morning, June 27th, 2015. Jeffrey Cohan is the Executive Director of Jewish Vegetarians of North America and the author of The Beet-Eating Heeb, a popular blog about the theology of vegetarianism.
Jeffrey became a vegetarian in 2007 after studying what the Torah instructs us about our dietary choices.
An experienced public speaker, he worked in print and broadcast journalism for 18 years before starting a second career in Jewish communal service. Jeffrey was the Director of Community Relations for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh from 2005-2012, then took the helm of JVNA in 2012.
Under his leadership, JVNA has emerged as the fastest growing veg-advocacy organization in the nation.
Jeffrey earned a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s of Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University.