Dr. Edward Paul Cohn
Rabbi

Rabbi Cohn received his B.A. Degree with Honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1970, his Master of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1974, and his Doctor of Ministry Degree from the St. Paul School of Theology in 1983. Rabbi Cohn was elected to his position at Temple Sinai in 1987.
Rabbi Cohn was appointed to the Leadership Forum of the Metropolitan Area Committee for 1988-89, and was appointed by then Mayor Sidney Barthelemy as his personal representative to the Human Relations Commission of the Metropolitan Area Committee. He has served five terms on this Commission, having also been appointed by Mayor Marc Morial. Rabbi Cohn has served as both Vice Chair and Chairman.
Rabbi Cohn is a Contributing Editor of Pulpit Digest, and has been appointed to the bio-ethics committees of Touro Infirmary, Ochsner Medical Center and Mercy-Baptist Hospital. He also serves with distinction as Adjunct Professor at Dillard University where he teaches a course on "The History of Jewish Thought." In addition, Rabbi Cohn has produced and moderated two television shows seen on cable channels in the New Orleans area, "Faith to Faith" and "Shalom New Orleans."
Rabbi Cohn presently serves as National Chairman of the Committee on Aging of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and is a member of the UAHC Commission on Interreligious Affairs.
Rabbi Cohn was invited by President Clinton's Board on Race to be a delegate at The First Regional Forum For Religious Community Leaders at Tulane University. He was one of five panelists on the subject of "Faith and Race."
CANTOR JOEL
COLMAN has
been serving as the Cantor at Temple Sinai for the past four 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. He 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.
Cantor Colman 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 with some 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.
Cantor Colman is proud to serve the New Orleans community as a
Chaplain with the New Orleans Fire Department, and is a member of the
American Conference of Cantors and serves on the Board of Directors.
He is an active amateur radio operator, and is the amateur radio
emergency coordinator for Orleans Parish. Beginning in July, 2003,
Cantor Colman will also take on the responsibility of being the Temple
Sinai Religious School Director. He lives in uptown New Orleans with
his wife Jackie, who teaches in the Temple Sinai Religious School and
Mid-Week Hebrew program, and son Joshua who attends Ecole Classique in
Metairie, and their two black labs, Ben & Jazz.