Valerie Cohen
Valerie Cohen is an American Reform rabbi.Biography
Cohen was born in Cleveland, and raised in Florida, where she earned a B.A. in public relations at University of Florida, graduating in 1993. She then studied at Hebrew Union College's Israel, Cincinnati and New York City campuses, where she graduated in 1999 and was ordained at Manhattan's Temple Emanuel. That year she joined Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee as assistant rabbi. In 2003, Beth Israel Congregation of Jackson, Mississippi hired Cohen as sole rabbi, the "only pulpit rabbi in Jackson". She simultaneously served as the rabbi of Lexington, Mississippi's Temple Beth El. In 2013, The Forward named Cohen one of its 36 inspiring rabbis. Cohen became rabbi of Temple Emanuel Sinai in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2014.
