Benyamin Cohen
Benyamin Cohen (born 1975) is an American journalist and author. He is the author of the memoir My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith published by HarperOne. Publishers Weekly named it one of the best books of the year for which Cohen received the Georgia Author of the Year Award. He was the founder and editor of the award-winning national magazine American Jewish Life and the online magazine Jewsweek, and he has written for the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, the Washington Post, and Slate. Before that, he edited Torah from Dixie, thoughts on the weekly Bible portion, which was later turned into a book by the same name. He served as the content director for the Mother Nature Network, a science and environmental news website. In 2014, he became the editorial director of the website "From The Grapevine". In 2018, he began hosting a weekly interview podcast, hosted on the Grapevine site, called "Our Friend from Israel". He previously served as the host of the "Hadassah on Call" podcast. In December 2020, it was announced that he became the News Director of The Forward. Jewsweek Jewsweek was an online magazine