Mike Cohen, the first "Traveling Scholar" for Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's Ohr Torah
Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Cooperation, is a veteran
military, political and security strategist, who is closely affiliated with the Eretz
Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies the Ariel University Center in
Samaria, and the Temple Institute.
Cohen, on leave from Bar Ilan University, is an active member of the
Professors for Safe Israel and other pro-Israel think-tanks and serves as an
adviser on Jewish and Israeli affairs for a number of non-Jewish pro-Israel
organizations.
In 2008, Mike was honored with Israel's prestigious Minster of Defense Award
for IDF Reserve Support "The Reserve Shield" by Israel's Minister of Defense,
Chief of Staff and Commander of Reserve Forces and in July 2010, he was
honored by the United Chaplains of New York State at their annual graduation
ceremony.
Mike has recently completed the bilingual editing of Dr. Yoseph Mazur's book
Zionism, Post-Zionism and the Arab Problem: A Compendium of Opinions
About The Jewish State (Hebrew: Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem -
English: Professors for a Safe Israel & Westbow Press).
He is currently working on "Where There Is No Vision, People Die,” (Proverbs
29:18) and a book on non-Jewish contributions to the building of the new
State of Israel.
He has worked with the entire gamut of news networks,electronic and print,
has been called to consult on a range of topics for members of both houses
of the United States Congress and in the Israeli Knesset and has addressed
the entire alphabet soup of Jewish and Christian organizational life.
Mike has worn multiple professional hats in philanthropy, education,
business, entrepreneurship, finance and counter-terrorism.
A 26-year veteran IDF reserve officer in an elite special-forces unit, Mike has
been active in Israeli, American and Israel-Diaspora politics and business in
a wide variety of behind-the-scenes capacities since his teen years and has
served in a range of advisory positions under five Israeli Prime Ministers
dating back to the late Menachem Begin, of blessed memory.
During Operation Defensive Shield in April/May 2002, Mike was assigned as
an IDF reservist to the National Emergency Response & Negotiation Team in
Bethlehem that was tasked with handling the multifaceted and potentially
explosive crisis surrounding the Church of the Nativity's hostile takeover by
terrorists.
Since that time he has been working with the IDF, Israel Police, and
international NGO's assisting Israel's efforts to depoliticize the nation's
security decisions and concerns, comprehensively briefing visiting diplomats,
politicians, dignitaries, security experts and communal missions and trying to
help redefine the electronic information distribution systems the official
security services use to "get the word out."
A former executive at the National Basketball Association, the American
Sportscaster’s Association, the National Pro-Am City Leagues, Yad Vashem,
Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial & Museum, Yeshiva University, the
Orthodox Union and the Israel Ministry of Tourism, Mike is an oft-requested
scholar-in-residence, lecturer and strategist on issues regarding Middle East
security, the Military Aspects of International Conflict and Peace Making, Israel-
Diaspora relations, Israeli Society and Body Politic, Homeland Security,
Conflict Resolution, Christian relationships with Israel and the use of
technology for community development.
In 2002 Mike compiled "Ordinary People - Extraordinary Spirit" a 220-page
photo essay that illustrated the amazing spirit shown by Israeli, Jewish and
Christian Zionist society in the face of the ongoing campaign of global and
domestic terror and "The Job of A Jewish Soldier" a children's book designed
to help Jewish parents worldwide explain the images their children are
seeing on TV in a gentler and more positive manner.
To book Mike for your community, school, church, synagogue, Israel Program
or tour, please contact arlene@gogalil.com
| LTC (Res.) Mike Cohen, PhD |
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| Dr. Mike Cohen: CJCUC Traveling Scholar |
Led by Rabbi
Shlomo
Riskin, Chief
Rabbi of Efrat,
Israel, the
Center for
Jewish &
Christian
Understandin
g and
Cooperation
(CJCUC), is
dedicated to
dialogue
between
committed,
Bible-believin
g Jews &
Christians in
an open,
respectful
and
non-conversio
nary
atmosphere.
We invite you
to visit our
campus in
Efrat, to a
Bible learning
afternoon in
Jerusalem or
to greet one
of our
scholars in
your
community,
church or
university.
Please
contact us
today!
Shlomo
Riskin, Chief
Rabbi of Efrat,
Israel, the
Center for
Jewish &
Christian
Understandin
g and
Cooperation
(CJCUC), is
dedicated to
dialogue
between
committed,
Bible-believin
g Jews &
Christians in
an open,
respectful
and
non-conversio
nary
atmosphere.
We invite you
to visit our
campus in
Efrat, to a
Bible learning
afternoon in
Jerusalem or
to greet one
of our
scholars in
your
community,
church or
university.
Please
contact us
today!
| Winner of Israel's 2008 Minister of Defense Award for IDF Reserve Support |
| Mike: mike@gogalil.com |
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