Marion Lev-Cohen

Marion Lev-Cohen is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She is also the national chair of MAKOM, an initiative of the Jewish Agency to deepen Israel engagement, former chair of the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal and a member of the UJA/Federation of NY's Executive Committee. Marion serves on numerous boards, including the Joint Distribution Committee, Jewish Agency and Synagogue 3000, and formerly, Foundation for Jewish Camping, Jewish Educational Services of North America, Hillel International, the JCC of Manhattan, the Hartman Institute and the Schechter School of Manhattan. A psychotherapist by profession, she ran the graduate training program for social work students at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and was an instructor at the B.U. School of Social Work. She is a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Foundation program. A mother of two, she resides with her husband Steven M. Cohen in New York and Jerusalem. She joined the AJWS board of trustees in 2005.