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Cohen to say hello to his wife, who worked as a senior hostess at
the USO Center Fort Hamilton, where Irving Cohen was based.

Sara Cohen ended up meeting Irving through her parents. She
was 16 years old, and he was 20. They married a few years later
when his military service ended.

She went to Brooklyn College, where she studied Hebrew and
Hebrew education. She also attended seminary school.

“I hit it from two angles because I didn’t have it at home,” Co-
hen said, “and I was up against a lot of kids that went to yeshiva
and day school, and I didn’t go to that. My parents just didn’t have
the money or the desire to send me to a day school. I did it all in
the afternoon school, and that’s why I was so passionate about it,
because it can be done and it should be done.”
Irving Cohen was also a teacher, in the field of music. He had
a Ph.D. in music from New York University and spent some time
teaching at Yeshiva University.

After 20 years of married life in Brooklyn, Irving Cohen got
a job as a professor of music history at West Chester University,
which brought the couple to Philadelphia in 1970.

They bought a house in Wynnewood, and Sara Cohen started
teaching at Solomon Schechter Day School and eventually became
a principal.

In 1978, Har Zion’s Rabbi Gerald Wolpe called and invited her
to come serve as educational director at Har Zion. She stayed for
25 years.

“We had the numbers,” Cohen said, in reference to how the
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