Steven M. Cohen is perhaps the most important Jewish sociologist in America. A prolific writer and popular speaker on the Jewish circuit, Cohen is best known as the architect of the intermarriage “crisis” discourse; he has for decades used sociological surveys to insist that intermarriage is “the greatest single threat to Jewish continuity today.” But…
They are in their 20s, were raised in families with only one Jewish parent, do not associate themselves with any Jewish denomination and are likely to hold liberal political views. This is the profile of one in five young American Jews and, according to a new analysis of data collected by the Pew Research Center…
A South African performance artist who tied a live rooster to his penis during an impromptu open-air show near the Eiffel Tower was found guilty on Monday of “sexual exhibitionism”, but the Paris court did not impose a sentence, prosecutors said. Last September Steven Cohen danced on the tourist-filled Trocadero Plaza dressed in a corset,…
● The Missing File By D.A. Mishani Translated from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen Harper, 304 pages, $25.99 According to his author bio, D.A. Mishani (those are his initials, not his job title) is an editor of Israeli fiction and crime literature at an Israeli publishing company. He is also “a literary scholar specializing in…
To win a guilty verdict against one of hedge fund titan Steven A Cohen’s most senior portfolio managers, U.S. prosecutors face a tough task: convincing a jury that a man who already admitted to breaking the law is telling the truth on the witness stand. On Friday, U.S. authorities arrested and charged Michael Steinberg, a…
Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen has bought a famous Picasso painting from casino mogul Steve Wynn for a record price, according to a report in the New York Post on Tuesday. Cohen, who runs $15 billion hedge fund firm SAC Capital Advisors, purchased “Le Rêve,” a 1932 oil painting of Picasso’s mistress, for $155…
Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods are growing fast in New York while non-Orthodox neighborhoods have begun to shrink, a new study reveals. The New York community also remains highly concentrated, with four distinct areas that would each qualify as one of America’s 20 most-populous areas. Those are key findings from the Jewish Community Study of New York:…
How many prominent Steven (or Stephen) Cohens must exist to warrant an article in the New York Times? Try eight, and that’s not including the additional Steven Cohens – the magician, the wrestler, the soccer player – found on Wikipedia. There’s Steven Cohen, secretary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Steve Cohen, a Memphis congressman….
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