WELCOME to

THE RABBI SAMUEL S.
and
A. IRMA COHON
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Established by their children and grandchildren, the Foundation presents awards to individuals for accomplishments that benefit Klal Yisroel --
the entire Jewish people. 

Please click here to view the video where
Rabbis Baruch Cohon and Samuel M. Cohon do the introductions.

The Cohon Award is presented once a year. Contributions to this fund are tax deductible. We now can process donations via credit cards, through secure Google Checkout.

Announcing an important new book
available from Ktav Publishers
at Amazon.com and Powell Books:

"Faithfully Yours - Selected Rabbinical Correspondence of Samuel S. Cohon"

please read reviews by Ephraim Z. Buchwald, by Mara Cohen Ioannides and
and in H-Judaic by Dana Evan Kaplan

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Cohon Award:

Syd Mandelbaum of Long Island and Dr. Michael Hammer of Arizona. Together they are using their scientific discoveries to help Klal Yisrael, the entire Jewish people.  Their field is human genetics, specifically DNA.  They created the DNA Shoah project, to re-unite families torn apart by the Holocaust. Mr. Mandelbaum is the son of two survivors. His own grandfather disappeared from a slave labor camp and was never found. Other families were similarly fractured. Now our winners urge those who seek to find the missing, to add their own DNA's to the file. A match could still happen! Go to their website, www.dnashoah.org and learn the details.

They accepted the award on Friday Dec. 18th, the last night of Hanukkah, at Temple EmanuEl in Tucson Arizona, headquarters of the Cohon Memorial Foundation.  To meet these fascinating people, and see them when they received the award, please follow this link to view the 2009 Cohon Award VIDEO.

Previous winners of the Cohon Award include:

• The Koppel family of Cleveland, Ohio, in the field of education and information.
• Henry Sapoznik of New York City for creative arts.
• Simon Frumkin of Los Angeles & Glenn Richter of New York City for rescue
• Ivan Ceresnjes of Jerusalem for both rescue and education.

• Dr. Jose Nessim, founder of the Sephardic Educational
  Center in Jerusalem, for education, seen here accepting his award at the opening night of the Sephardic Film Festival at Paramount Studios, Hollywood.
  
  

 

 

• Roz Rothstein, founder of the StandWithUs organization, for unity, she received her award at Temple EmanuEl of Tucson, Arizona, headquarters of the Cohon Memorial Foundation.