Richard A. Cohen

RICHARD A. COHEN practiced law for 46 years after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. For more than four decades, he has also immersed himself deeply in Torah and Talmud study. Cohen’s keen ethical sensibility and precise, text-based approach to Torah reflect the discipline of his legal career. Beginning with his award-winning law review article on bail reform, he has been a steadfast advocate for civil liberties, serving on the board and as vice president of the ACLU of Delaware and litigating cases involving free speech, religious freedom, and police misconduct. He has served as president of the Jewish Community of Amherst, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, poet and novelist Eliza Gouverneur, and is the proud father of four and grandfather of eight. The author can be contacted at: sacredflaws2026@gmail.com.