Podcast appearances and mentions of Steven M Cohen

Steven M. Cohen, Esq. of Rubin and Rudman LLP in Boston gives an overview of basic Medicaid eligibility rules in this podcast, excerpted from MCLE's 6/22/23 live webcast: Medicaid & Health Planning Update 2023. The full program is available as an on demand webcast or an MP3 here.  Get 24/7 instant access to hundreds of related eLectures like this one—and more—with a subscription to the MCLE OnlinePass. Learn more at www.mcle.org/onlinepass and start your free trial today!

Mixed Marriages – In or out? Join us as we imagine how Jewish Law and accepted practice could adjust to the alarmingly high rate of intermarriage in the USA and the subsequent loss of households identifying with the Jewish people. ---------------- Notes The Pew Survey Reanalyzed: More Bad News, but a Glimmer of Hope – by JACK WERTHEIMER AND STEVEN M. COHEN  It's time to allow Conservative rabbis to officiate at interfaith weddings By Seymour Rosenbloom April 4, 2016  Jethro נָבֹל תִּבֹּל גַּם אַתָּה גַּם הָעָם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר עִמָּךְ כִּי כָבֵד מִמְּךָ הַדָּבָר לֹא תוּכַל עֲשׂהוּ לְבַדֶּךָ You will surely wear yourself out both you and these people who are with you for the matter is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Exodus 18: 18  Daughters of Zelophechad לָמָּה יִגָּרַע שֵׁם אָבִינוּ מִתּוֹךְ מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ כִּי אֵין לוֹ בֵּן תְּנָה לָּנוּ אֲחֻזָּה בְּתוֹךְ אֲחֵי אָבִינוּ Why should our father's name be eliminated from his family because he had no son? Give us a portion along with our father's brothers. Numbers 36 Rashi: because he had no son: But if he had a son, they would have made no claim at all. This teaches us that they were intelligent women. — [Sifrei Pinchas 15, Sifrei Pinchas 13] Usury  Exodus 22:24 (25)—If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.  אִם-כֶּסֶף תַּלְוֶה אֶת-עַמִּי, אֶת-הֶעָנִי עִמָּךְ--לֹא-תִהְיֶה לוֹ, כְּנֹשֶׁה; לֹא-תְשִׂימוּן עָלָיו, נֶשֶׁךְ  Deuteronomy 23:21 (20)—Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.  לַנָּכְרִי תַשִּׁיךְ, וּלְאָחִיךָ לֹא תַשִּׁיךְ--לְמַעַן יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּכֹל מִשְׁלַח יָדֶךָ, עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ Heter Isaka see How Does a Heter Iska Work? By Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff Heter Mechira, In the modern era, as Jews started to return to the land of Israel, the struggling farmers trying against all odds to eke out a marginal existence were confronted with the biblical law of shemita.. the requirement to let the land lie fallow every 7 years. In 1888 a bunch of the most esteemed Europeanrabbis (and the Chief Rabbi of Jaffa) came up with an innovative idea which has become known as the heter mechira (literally: permission to sell). They proposed, that just as on Passover we sell our Hametz to a non-Jew, for the Sabattical year of rest, the entire land of Israel may be sold to a gentile, so that the Jews could work the land. …By the time the next shmita cycle came around in 1895-1896, the rabbinic authorities had joined a united front permitting the sale of the land for that sabbatical year. The rabbis concluded that reality dictated a need for such action because the people could not observe the laws of shmita. In the years of 1910 and 1911, Rav Kook allowed for the sale of the land as well, reaffirming that although it was not ideal, it served an important purpose. …In the years that followed, the decision to sell the land was reevaluated before the arrival of each shmita cycle. Once the State of Israel was established, the Rabbanut (Chief Rabbinate) accepted the sale of the land every year until as recently as 2007-2008. (See Whose Land is it Anyway? By: Nava Billet published in the Yeshiva University Student Newspaper).  Gathering pace, rogue Israeli conversion court racks up new Jews Assimilation is here’ says Tzohar chairman Rabbi Stav Rabbi: Conversion Panel to Prevent Intermarriage Ger Katan in the Talmud: see Hebrew and here in English Tircha DeTzibut – טורח ציבור    Undo Duress to the community  אין גוזרין יותר משלש עשרה תעניות על הצבור לפי שאין מטריחין את הצבור יותר מדאי דברי רבי Taanit 14b A decree that a majority of the community can live with גזירה אין גוזרין גזירה על הצבור, אלא אם כן רוב הצבור יכולין לעמוד בה. קודם הנהגת תקנות וגזירות, על בית דין לבדוק אם רוב הציבור יכול לעמוד בה. עבודה זרה לו, א When a court sees it necessary to issue a decree, institute an edict, or establish a custom, they must first contemplate the matter and see whether or not the majority of the community can uphold the practice. We never issue a decree on the community unless the majority of the community can uphold the practice.  See Maimonides Code Mishne Torah Mamrim - Chapter 2 especially laws 5 - 9  On Status and Identity  See: Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa 2012 by David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis  See: On Proving Jewish Identity Oct. 2011 by Rabbi Reuven Hammer  The Rambam in Isurei Biah 19:17 cites the rule in Kiddushin 76b above and states:  All familes stand in the presumption of fitness and may enter into marriage from the very beginning.  

In this episode, Steven M. Cohen explains what religion really is. Many people think that it is a religion, but it turns out that it is so much more than that.

Israel Distress Need Not Lead to Israel Detachment And Lack of Support From Left - Steven M. Cohen If you don't like Israeli policies, but care about Israel, you belong in the conversation and your voice is important. Be part of the community.

A message to people in their 20s and 30s on why it makes sense to marry someone who shares your Jewish heritage. Steven M. Cohen was kind enough to create a special short episode where he discusses the benefits of marrying someone who shares your Jewish heritage, culture, tradition and religion if you practice. And even if you don't practice, the heritage, culture, tradition, wisdom literature and other cultural aspects can truly enrich your marriage and the lives of your children.

Professor Steven M. Cohen discusses findings of his research on the shrinking of American Jewish middle, and what we can all do about it. It isn't all gloom and doom. There are some silver linings of course. So enjoy the episode.

Steven M. Cohen, Attorney and Co-Counsel of my non-profit org, the Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council, and the attorney who successfully won the 1st political prosecution by the Bush 43 Administration, U.S. vs. Robert Rhodes III. We discuss some landmark cases, which were based on prosecutorial abuse, political intrigue and agendas, while violating the rights of our own first responders and government informants. In fact, my work in documenting the West Texas area i.e. the Infamous Johnny Sutton former U.S. Attorney actually led to Steve and I along with a fellow reporter friend help an informant whose rights were violated in a way commonly associated with the Mexican and Cuban Governments. This is the House of Death case. You want to learn about the extent that the American Justice System has been destroyed beyond repair, our discussion defines this issue in a way you have not yet begun to imagine. Reads right out of the Twilight Zone, and countless Hollywood Movies. Click HERE to visit The Andy Ramirez Show Podcast Center

Steven M. Cohen, Attorney and Co-Counsel of my non-profit org, the Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council, and the attorney who successfully won the 1st political prosecution by the Bush 43 Administration, U.S. vs. Robert Rhodes III. We discuss some landmark cases, which were based on prosecutorial abuse, political intrigue and agendas, while violating the rights of our own first responders and government informants. In fact, my work in documenting the West Texas area i.e. the Infamous Johnny Sutton former U.S. Attorney actually led to Steve and I along with a fellow reporter friend help an informant whose rights were violated in a way commonly associated with the Mexican and Cuban Governments. This is the House of Death case. You want to learn about the extent that the American Justice System has been destroyed beyond repair, our discussion defines this issue in a way you have not yet begun to imagine. Reads right out of the Twilight Zone, and countless Hollywood Movies. Click HERE to visit The Andy Ramirez Show Podcast Center

Over the last few years, American liberals, both Jewish and not, have adopted less positive images of Israel with consequences for their feelings of attachment. These trends have implications both for understanding younger American Jews today, as well as for contending with BDS sympathizers, be they focused upon ending the occupation or seeking the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel. Professor Steven M. Cohen, a Jerusalem Center Fellow, is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner. In 1992 he made aliyah, and taught for 14 years at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author/co-author of several books on American Jewry, winning a National Book Award in 2010 for Sacred Strategies. He was the lead researcher on the Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, and received the Marshall Sklare Award of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSSJ). Prof. Cohen was elected president of the ASSSJ in 2012.

A recently conducted survey of American Jews, focusing upon the non-Orthodox, shows dramatic differences in levels of Israel attachment between younger and older Jews. Why do younger Jews express less attachment than older Jews? What are the implications for the future, and for the Jewish communal policy? This briefing draws upon the recently published, Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, 2007, by Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman

A recently conducted survey of American Jews, focusing upon the non-Orthodox, shows dramatic differences in levels of Israel attachment between younger and older Jews. Why do younger Jews express less attachment than older Jews? What are the implications for the future, and for the Jewish communal policy? This briefing draws upon the recently published, Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, 2007, by Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman

Dr. Jacob B Ukeles and Prof. Steven M. Cohen On The Jews of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Baltimore.

The very definition of "pro-Israel" is now contested, as some Israel advocates view certain critics of Israel government policies as "anti-Israel". In their terms, such critics oppose the "occupation" and Jewish settlements, and they doubt the sincerity of Israel's leaders. Can such individuals, specifically those who feel deeply connected to Israel, be seen properly as part of the "pro-Israel" camp? Do they enhance or damage Israel's public image in the US? These complex questions will be explored in the context of Prof. Cohen's recent study of attitudes toward Israel among ordained rabbis and rabbinic students of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Steven M. Cohen is research professor of Jewish Social Policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner

Co-author of The Jew Within, Steven M. Cohen has a lot to say about shifting Jewish identity. While shared priorities -- protecting Israel, fighting anti-semitism, and preventing inter-marriage – were what strengthened the Jewish community in previous generations, today’s younger American Jews are searching for meaningful Jewish experiences. What that means and how it plays out is the topic of this talk by Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner.