Benyamin Cohen
Benyamin Cohen
Zohran Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in Bryant Park on Oct 27, 2024 (Photo by Bingjiefu He, CC BY-SA 4.0. via Wikimedia Commons)
October 29, 2025, 4:30 pm
Why rabbis across America are taking sides in New York’s mayoral race
From California to Pennsylvania, clergy are speaking out — some warning Zohran Mamdani endangers Jewish life, others calling that fear itself the real threat
By Benyamin Cohen
Alan Iszauk at the bimah where he was bar mitzvahed, married, and still prays. The sanctuary’s blue stained-glass windows cast an ethereal glow onto the room. (Photo by Benyamin Cohen)
July 10, 2025, 9:37 am
This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
By Benyamin Cohen
Barry Wendell at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Benyamin Cohen)
February 3, 2022, 8:34 am
The rabbi’s husband from West Virginia is running for U.S. Congress
Barry Wendell is married to Rabbi Joe Hample, who helms Morgantown’s Tree of Life Congregation.
By Benyamin Cohen
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