Rabbi Moshe Cohn
Rabbi Moshe Cohn is the Head of the Jewish World Section in the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He is a dynamic educator with more than thirty-five years of extensive experience in both formal and informal education. Prior to Aliyah, Rabbi Cohn served for over 25 years as the Regional Director of the Orthodox Union, first in the Central East Region and then in the Southern Region of the United States. During that time, he pioneered educational programming for Communities, Synagogues, and Schools. In Israel he pioneered creative educational experiences for post high school students, first as the founder of Torat Shraga Yeshiva, a GAP year boys learning program in Jerusalem, and then as Principal of Halichos Bais Yaakov Seminary for Girls. Rabbi Cohn studied philosophy at UCLA and he pursued his Rabbinical Studies at the Rabbinical Seminary of America and Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He and his wife live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. They have approximately 45, (and counting),children and grandchildren living throughout Israel.