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July 26 • 2018
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ebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion, the
leading Reform seminary,
has opened a Title IX investigation
against well-known Jewish sociolo-
gist Steven M. Cohen, Ph.D., after
several women accused him of sexual
misconduct.
The allegations, published July
19 in an extensive investigative
article by the New York Jewish Week,
reaches back decades and includes
comments from women who have
worked with Cohen or associated
professionally with him. They include
inappropriate touching and grabbing,
sexual propositions and advances,
and inappropriate sexual remarks.
Five women in the article said
Cohen sexually harassed them, while
three others accused him of other
kinds of sexual misconduct.
Cohen is research professor of
Jewish social policy at HUC-JIR
and director of the Berman Jewish
Policy Archive (BJPA), an electronic
database, at Stanford University
established by the Mandell L. and
Madeleine H. Berman Foundation
and the Charles H. Revson
Foundation.
Cohen did not deny the allegations
and apologized for them in a state-
ment to the Jewish Week.
“I recognize that there is a pattern
here,” the statement said, in part. “It’s
one that speaks to my inappropriate
behavior for which I take full respon-
sibility. I am deeply apologetic to
the women whom I have hurt by my
words or my actions.”
Cohen, 68, said he has undergone
a process of “education, recognition,
remorse and repair” in consultation
with clergy, therapists and profes-
sional experts. He is married to Rabbi
Marion Lev-Cohen and they have
two children. The couple live both in
Jerusalem and New York City.
One woman named in the article
is Keren McGinity, a professor at
Brandeis University. She wrote a
column last month in the Jewish
Week detailing assault by an
American Jewish academic she didn’t
name, but whom she reveals to be
Steven M. Cohen
Cohen in this week’s article.
“I firmly said ‘good night,’ told him
that he did not have to walk me back
to my room and turned to walk away
when he suddenly wrapped his arms
around me, pressed his body against
mine, and forcefully kissed my neck
in a way that only lovers should,”
McGinity wrote.
Accusers described incidents going
back to the 1980s and as recently,
in McGinity’s case, to 2011. Seven of
the eight women interviewed noted
that Cohen was “in a position of pro-
fessional power and superiority when
the respective incidents took place,”
the Jewish Week reported.
Cohen is perhaps the most promi-
nent American Jewish sociologist
and has conducted studies for a
broad spectrum of Jewish organiza-
tions, including the Detroit Area
Jewish Population Study in 1989,
with Jack Ukeles that was spon-
sored by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. Cohen did
studies for other Jewish federa-
tions, Hillel International and the
JCC Association of North America.
He was a consultant on the Pew
Research Center’s 2013 study of
American Jews. His analyses and
columns have been published widely
across Jewish publications.
One of his most recent studies,
commissioned by UJA-Federation
of New York, examines Israeli Jews’
views on their relationship to
American Jews and religious plu-
ralism.
According to the Jewish Week,
Cohen was removed from a June
25 appearance at the Schusterman
Center for Israel Studies summer
program at Brandeis and an upcom-
ing appearance at the Association for
Jewish Studies annual conference. •
To view the New York Jewish Week’s story,
go to bit.ly/2LIEdcP.