Cohen
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Morris Raphael, 1880–1947, U.S. philosopher and educator, born in Russia.
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Octavus Roy 1891–1959, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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Cohanim,
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Cohens
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Leonard. born 1934, Canadian singer, songwriter, and poet; recordings include Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968), Songs of Love and Hate (1971), I'm Your Man (1988), and Ten New Songs (2001)
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Stanley. born 1922, US biochemist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1986
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Etymology
Origin of Cohen
From the Hebrew word kōhēn priest
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"It's so tricky because, in principle, I agree with opposing these new settlements," Michael Cohen, who works for a Jewish charity, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile Ezra Cohen, the former Trump defence official who is now a fellow at the Hudson Institute, described the president as having degraded Iran's conventional military threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It is the work of producer-director team Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who made “RBG,” the Oscar-nominated portrait of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
In Yang’s career discussions at the end of his Ph.D., he made it clear to Cohen and Salakhutidinov he was set on returning to China to build a startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I carry the shoes and socks and the linen tablecloth Mrs. Cohen gave me.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
The group has a broader reach than American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, operating in every West Bank region.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
The Mukhayriq Initiative’s managing director, Ellie Cohanim, said Friday that Quraishi became “the target of a political agenda for doing nothing more than his job as a journalist.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
Theophilos also brought a court case seeking to retrieve two properties in the Old City’s Christian Quarter sold more than a decade ago by his predecessor Irenaios I to right-wing Jewish group Ateret Cohanim.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2017
President Philippe Cohanim said Caruso’s contribution would help the building’s occupants cope with increased noise and dust while Caruso’s project was being built.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2016
The hierophant was compelled to avoid contact with the dead in the same manner as the Cohanim of the Jewish faith, and with certain animals reputed to be unclean.
From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright
Voicemails seeking comment were left with the Cohens and their attorney.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Then, the Cohens promise to develop a wraparound program to help them assimilate, with local French courses and apartments in refurbished buildings.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
Several snowbirds are offering their Surfside homes to displaced survivors, said Rabbi Yakov Saacks, a family friend who flew from New York to comfort the Cohens.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
Reckless, ruthless and unrestrained, the Cohens and Scaramuccis of the world are accustomed to social opprobrium and live their lives unfettered by ordinary social norms of appropriateness and self-abnegation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019
The Cohens sit on the sofa, holding hands.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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