Ateret Cohn z”l

Ateret Cohn completed public high school and Hebrew high school and attended the College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. Beginning in 1958, she taught Hebrew, history, and music at Congregation Emanuel B’nai Jeshurun and was assistant director of its religious school from 1969-71. Ateret pursued her own education throughout those years, attending a summer institute for Hebrew teachers at Cornell University, studying at Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem, and continuing her devotion to Bible study.

Her work in education touched many people within a variety of Jewish communal institutions. She was the Director of Camp Interlaken for ten years; she served as Director of Jewish Programming Services at the JCC; she directed the Judaica High School of the Milwaukee Association of Jewish Education for four years; she taught morning Bible classes to adults; and four years ago she began teaching the Bible to fourth and fifth graders at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School.

In addition to her ongoing affiliation with Jewish institutions, Ateret Cohn has consulted and lectured widely in the community. She was an organizer of support groups for Jewish women, a co-founder of the Kesher Conference of Jewish Women, and a resource adviser for the Milwaukee Public Schools, teaching a seminar on ethnic studies. She has lectured in public high schools, churches, and Catholic schools on Jewish history, religion, and the Holocaust, and she has instituted seminars on Holocaust studies in a number of educational institutions in Milwaukee. Ateret Cohn has taught for over forty years.