Professor Jonathan Cohen

Faculty Member

Professor Jonathan Cohen is a faculty member of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, where he teaches philosophy of education. In the past, he held several positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, including director of the Seymour Fox School of Education, director of the department of education, academic director of the Revivim program, and his final position as director of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education. Jonathan holds a doctorate in Jewish thought and education, and his main research areas include philosophy of Jewish education and curriculum development theories. He is the author of Reason and Change: Perspectives on the Study of Jewish Philosophy and Its History, published in Hebrew by the Bialik Institute. He also edited the anthology Visions in Action: Selected Writings of Seymour Fox, published by the Mandel Foundation and Keter Books, and wrote its introduction. Jonathan is a graduate of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows program.