Benyamin Cohen

Benyamin Cohen is the News Director of the Forward, America’s oldest and largest Jewish newspaper. Cohen has a bizarre side hustle managing the official social media accounts of Albert Einstein, where the world's favourite genius has more than 20 million fans. He is the author of "The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds" and "My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith," which was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and for which he received the Georgia Author of the Year award. He is based in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he lives with his wife, three dogs, a cat, and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.