Rabbi Atara Cohen

Rabbi Atara Cohen is passionate about Torah which speaks to our social, intellectual, and emotional realities. She received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat in June 2020. Rabbi Atara is the Rabbinic Field Fellow at Base MNHTN and currently teaches Limmudei Qodesh at The Heschel Middle School. She has studied Torah in a variety of settings, including Midreshet Nishmat, Hadar, Drisha and a BA in religion at Princeton University. During rabbinical school, Rabbi Atara focused on human rights and social change through various fellowships. She served as a rabbinic intern at the Columbia-Barnard Hillel and a Cooperberg-Rittmaster Pastoral and Educational Intern at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. Rabbi Atara lives in Manhattan, where she runs, knits, and experiments with Persian cooking.