Benyamin Cohen is a senior writer at the Forward. Follow him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, and sign up for his morning newsletter, Forwarding the News, which gets you caught up on all the Jewish news to know each day. He is the author of two books, My Jesus Year and The Einstein Effect, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives with his wife in West Virginia with their three dogs, a cat and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.
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