Deborah Bodin Cohen

Ever since I was a young girl, I have enjoyed stories. I wrote myths and fairy tales in elementary school. For a long time, I thought that I might be a journalist. But, my love for Judaism and its sacred stories led me to become a rabbi. Stories that I created for the classroom or pulpit became books that I was lucky enough to have published.

When I am not writing, I am an editor at Behrman House Publishing/Apples and Honey Press. I am the rabbi of Beth Chai in Bethesda, MD. I was ordained in 1997 from Hebrew Union College in New York City. I have worked at Jewish camps, led more Jewish retreat weekends than I can count, and enjoy teaching pre-schoolers, senior adults and everybody in between.

I grew up in Columbia, MD, and graduated the University of Michigan. My husband David is a journalist and we have three children. Our Collie Indigo completes the family.