Lifelong Educator
Teaching Judaism at 90
SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
I t’s been 15 years since Sara Cohen retired from her position as educational
director at Har Zion Temple, but her love of teaching and Judaism keeps the
90-year-old educator coming back.

Once a week, she leads an adult tefillah class, where she and her students
delve into Jewish prayer — the meaning behind the words, who wrote them
and why.

“I just love teaching,” said Cohen, who has lived in the same Wynnewood
home for decades. “The mitzvah, the commandment, is to learn, but it’s also to
learn and to teach.”
Cohen was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her zayde taught her to love
Judaism, she said. He was shomer Shabbat and would often spend Shabbat with
her family. She remembers walking with him to shul.

Her parents were not particularly religious, and, she said, they ended up
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