Aryeh Cohen, PhD, is associate professor of rabbinic literature at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He has taught at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and Brandeis University. Cohen is the author of Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot, and coeditor of Beginning/Again: Towards a Hermeneutics of Jewish Texts. He is a founding member of Jews Against the War.