Rabbi and Cantor
 
Edward Paul Cohn, D.MIN., D.D.
Rabbi
 
Rabbi Edward Paul CohnRABBI EDWARD PAUL COHN received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1970, his Master of Hebrew letters degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish of Religion in 1974, and his Doctor of Ministry degree from the St. Paul School of Theology in 1984.

From 1974 to 1976 Rabbi Cohn was the Assistant Rabbi at The Temple, in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as the Rabbi of Beth Israel in Macon, Georgia from 1976 to 1979, and of the New Reform Temple in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1979 to 1983. Before his selection as Senior Rabbi of Temple Sinai in New Orleans in 1987, Rabbi Cohn was Rabbi of Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is past president of the South West Association of Reform Rabbis.  Rabbi Cohn was appointed by the Mayor of New Orleans to Chair the New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Project. Dr. Cohn served as founding Chairman of the City Human Relations Committee and is an active leader in the Jewish and larger communities of the New Orleans metropolitan region. The Rabbi served from 2005-2007 as ethics consultant for MSNBC and appeared on “The Ethical Edge.” Under Rabbi Cohn’s leadership Temple Sinai has become the Jewish address for interfaith married families, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Bi-Sexual Jews, Alcoholics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous.

Rabbi Cohn was named Contributing Editor of the prestigious national journal of preaching, Pulpit Digest, and was recently asked to serve on the Union for Reform Judaism Congregation Committee on the Family. Our Rabbi was appointed to the joint Commission on Interfaith Relations sponsored by the Central Conference of Rabbis, and The Men of Reform Judaism and the Union for Reform Judaism Congregations. He is past president of the Rabbinical Council of Greater New Orleans and has served as adjunct professor at Dillard University. The Rabbi currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Xavier University.
      
Rabbi Cohn was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is married to the former Andrea Levy and they have two daughters, Jennifer and Debra, a grandson, Maxwell Cohn Kesselheim, and a granddaughter, Ryann Eliza Kraar.

Joel Colman
Cantor

Cantor Joel Colman CANTOR JOEL COLMAN has been serving as the Cantor at Temple Sinai for the past ten years. Previously he has served as the Cantor at Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, New York and as the Cantor/Educator at Greenwich Reform Synagogue in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Cantor Colman received a Master Degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred
Music where he was invested as Cantor in 1995, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan with a BA in Special Education. He is also a past regional director for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and has taught High School in Texas and in Israel.

Cantor Colman has sung in concerts in New Orleans, Rochester, St. Louis, Miami, Detroit, Tulsa, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City and Jerusalem, and has also been the featured artist at two concerts held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Cantor Colman has sung withsome of the finest male college choirs in the country such as the Wayne State University Glee Club in Detroit, Michigan, and the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cantor Colman’s master thesis on Sidor Belarsky was published by the Journal of Synagogue Music. Cantor Colman has sung our National Anthem at the 2002 Nokia Sugar Bowl, which was heard nationwide on ABC-TV, and for the New Orleans Hornets.

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