H eadlines
Cohen Streaming
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at Main Line Reform Temple
before the High Holidays.

After his tenure as state
commissioner for aging issues
came to a close, Cohen briefly
served as the state’s commis-
sioner of family services. Soon
thereafter, he entered the Temple
University Beasley School
of Law, graduating in 1975, a
fresh-faced lawyer of 49 (he had
previously earned a master’s in
public administration from the
Maxwell School of Citizenship
& Public Affairs at Syracuse
University). He had a stint on
the faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine before he became the
attorney directing the Project
on Aging, Law, and Long-Term
Care at the Public Interest Law
Center of Philadelphia.

His passion was on display in
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testimony he gave to the United
States House Permanent Select
Committee on Aging as a repre-
sentative of the Public Interest
Law Center, an episode recounted
by the Inquirer. Cohen, testi-
fying to the House after a fire
killed nine elderly residents of
an unlicensed boarding home,
thundered against the “callous
neglect” of the commonwealth
and the Department of Public
Welfare for failing to enact the
law of the land.

It wasn’t all seriousness for
Cohen. Marcia Cohen remembers
him as a quick wit and excel-
lent travel partner. It was with
his encouragement that Marcia
Cohen decided to pursue
a master’s degree in social
service at Bryn Mawr College.

She said she sees her husband’s
love of learning and desire to
serve in her sons.

Jerry Chazen attended
the University of Wisconsin
with Cohen, and the two
remained close until Cohen’s
death. Their dormitory friend-
ship expanded into a lifelong
shared interest in opera and
theater, punctuated over the
decades with joint vacations,
live performances
seen together and mutual interest
each other’s work — Chazen
is one of the founders of Liz
Claiborne Inc.

“I was proud to call Eli my
friend,” Chazen said.

Cohen is survived by his wife,
Marcia, sons Barry and Peter,
and four grandchildren. l
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