– The Rabbi's Teaching –
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30
Years of Impact Across the World
Serving Internationally since the late 1970's
Leading in Manhattan since the early 1990's
Widely read author of books in whole or part ... [ See Books & CDs ]
Inspiring speaker and teacher at conferences and in congregations internationally for over two decades ...
Video Clip (Small Group, Jerusalem 2005) Video Clip (Large Audience, New Jersey 2005)
[See List of Topics ] [ Downloadable Sermons & Seminars ]
Regular columnist, editor, and author in periodicals [read an article].
What People Say:
"We thank you, Lord, for the gift Bruce has been to this movement, and for the gift he is
now
to New York, the largest Jewish population in the world." [see
video]
– President, Jewish Voice Television
"Bruce Cohen has been involved in the front lines of Messianic Judaism in the United States and
internationally since the 1970's." – President, Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA)
"No one has ever brought a word to South Africa like you have.
Your teaching is the benchmark to which we refer over and over again."
– President, South African Messianic Jewish Alliance
After more than twenty years seeing Messianic teaching from all over the world, I can honestly say Rabbi
Bruce's is the best balance of powerful spirituality and intellectual maturity I have seen anywhere."
– Former MJAA Staff & Long-term Congregant
"A half a day of seminars with Rabbi Bruce, and our young people came out on fire for G-d like I have never
never seen them. They have remained excited about who G–d is and what Scripture is in a way
that has stayed with them, and not faded out."
–Synagogue Youth Leader, Los Angeles
"That article you wrote on what Scripture requires of us in observing the Shabbat
(sabbath) was amazing. It was exactly what Messianic Jewish teaching and writing should be."
–President, Religious Publishing House
"Rabbi Bruce is not only a teacher, he is a true 'shaliakh.' He was a major force in
the planting of our synagogue in South Africa – which remains to this day."
– Messianic Alliance Executive, London, England
– Founding Rabbi, Beit Ariel of Cape Town
"Bruce Cohen just might be 'the Thomas Jefferson' of the Messianic Movement."
– – Messianic Rabbi, Long Island, New York
"It is over a year later, and our men's group is still talking all the time
about the teachings you gave them at the men's retreat last year.
– – Messianic Rabbi, Seattle, WA
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"Rabbi Bruce's faith utterly fascinates me. I love his theology!"
– Orthodox Rabbi, Upper East Side, Manhattan
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A Brief Resume:
Rabbi Bruce Cohen, founding rabbi of Congregation Beth El of Manhattan – the longest enduring Manhattan Messianic Jewish congregation in New York City's history – has been a widely sought and highly respected teacher and conference speaker on Messianic Jewish and Scripture-related topics all over the world since 1978. His uncompromised faith in the God of Israel and Yeshua of Nazareth as Messiah, balanced by a thorough and erudite Jewish theology and worldview, has earned the notice and respect of several mainstream Jewish rabbis in New York City – and even invitations to study about Messiah privately, debate the subject publicly, and for his congregation to serve in mainstream Manhattan Jewish institutional events. Rabbi Bruce was a quintessential Princeton "preppy," graduating high school from The Hun School of Princeton as an academic honors student, student government leader, magazine editor, and sports varsity "three letter man" with a state championship as a lacrosse midfielder. He went on to earn a cum laude double bachelor's degree in comparative literature and theater direction from Union College, with additional work in language at Columbia University, several rabbinic ordinations [see video], and certification from the State of Pennsylvania in both secondary and elementary education. He was also an appointee to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's prestigious National Theatre Institute. Rabbi Cohen authored and edited dictionary definitions for Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary (one of the most-used in the world), and served for nearly a decade as a teacher and then principal of a private Messianic Jewish day school. He has also served as a co-director and teacher of adult religious class programs, and a teacher of rabbis in yeshiva/seminary. He was the keynote speaker at South Africa's National Millennium Messianic Jewish Conference in the year 2000; and remains actively involved with Messianic Jewish groups in Israel, South Africa, and many other locations all across the globe. He was a yeshiva teacher for Maranatha and Hear O Israel Ministries in the former Soviet Union, and was Stage Director and Designer for Hear O Israel's first Messianic Music Festivals in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and Minsk. He also wrote and co-directed the ground-breaking popular "Dance for Joy" worship dance instructional video. His background in theatre makes him a highly entertaining speaker, while his scholarship in many languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, German, French, Russian, Hieroglyphic, Arabic, Japanese, and American Sign Language of the Deaf) joined to his ongoing studies in subjects ranging from legal theory to cosmologic physics, make him a presenter with astonishing depth on a wide range of subjects. You will leave his sessions stronger in accurate Biblical faith, and glad you and your guests had the opportunity to receive from him. As one of his congregants for over ten years said of him, "The hallmark of Rabbi Bruce's ministry is quality. There is amazing quality to everything he does."
Glimpses of Rabbi Bruce In Action:
The photos below are a sampling of Rabbi Bruce Cohen's teaching work spanning nearly three decades.
Leading
services on Broadway, teaching in the Upper
East Side, lecturing by invitation at New
York University
Speaker and teacher in South Africa, England, North America – as well as Israel, and the Caribbean ...
... the only Messianic Rabbi ever to have his teachings reported in detail
in Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Achronot ...
... who also planted the only synagogue of Two-Testament (Messianic)
Judaism ever to survive long-term in Manhattan, the heart of New York City,
(well on towards its second decade in the Manhattan) while also raising up
schools, congregations, fellowships and international partnerships in
Israel, Russia, South Africa, Belorussia, Canada, The United States, Barbados.
There is no more representative or authoritative Messianic Jewish teaching voice
a congregation or conference could bring in to minister that Rabbi Bruce Cohen; and you
have available his frontline musical ministry in a 2-for-1 bonus unobtainable anywhere else.
To book Rabbi Bruce to teach at your event,
use any of the following contact information:
Email: info@bethelnyc.org
Phone (212) 772-7500
Write to Congregation Beth El of Manhattan
Attn: "Speaking Engagements
1173-A 2nd
Avenue PMB 343 New York, NY 10021
list of teachings available music ministry home page
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