Rabbi Menachem Cohen

Menachem Cohen is the founding Rabbi of the Mitziut Jewish Community in Chicago and of Congregation B'nai haMidbar and the Black Rock JCC, the organized Jewish presence at Burning Man. For 11 years he has studied and practiced Jewish healing prayer with Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, founder of Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf, where Menachem received ordination. He has also studied Jewish Shamanic Healing with Rabbi Gershon Winkler at the Walkingstick foundation and at Elat Chayyim.. He has facilitated meditation groups across the country. His other interests include halacha and the paradigm shift and how our text, liturgy and calendar lead us through our psycho-spiritual journeys.

 

After graduating from Beloit College with a degree in English and a minor in Women's Studies he worked for Little Brothers/Friends of the Elderly in Minneapolis and the Center on Deafness in Northbrook, IL. He then earned an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before pursuing the rabbinate.

He can be reached directly via e-mail

 
Amy Stein-General Council Chair

When not at a Mitziut event, practicing yoga or traveling across town on her roller blades, Amy works as an internal consultant for Caremark, a Pharmaceutical Benefits company. Her expertise is in Project Management and Organizational Strategy. Previously she served as an external consultant to fortune 500 corporations in the midst of financial crisis, merger integration, large system implementation or other strategy or business process redesign projects working on behalf of IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Amy has traversed the spectrum of Judaic influences growing up Reform, studying in Jerusalem at a Modern Orthodox yeshiva and at Hebrew University. Amy transitioned into Corporate America via an MBA and Master's of Arts degree program in Middle Eastern Studies from University of Chicago. From these experiences grew her professional passion to manage and move teams to action.