Aryeh Cohen Minneapolis is the Rabbi-in-Residence for Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice in Southern California. He has been active in protesting deportations carried out by ICE and “zero tolerance” US immigration policies. In 2017, Cohen was one of the rabbis who signed a statement by Jewish Veg encouraging veganism for all Jews. This American rabbi and scholar who serves as a professor of Rabbinic Literature at American Jewish University. His scholarship focuses on the Talmud, Jewish ethics, and social justice. He received his BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was ordained as a rabbi by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.