| Honorific-Prefix: | Rabbi |
| Valerie Cohen | |
| Synagogue: | Temple Emanuel Sinai |
| Synagogueposition: | Rabbi |
| Semicha: | 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Cleveland, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Denomination: | Reform Judaism |
| Residence: | Holden, Massachusetts |
Valerie Cohen is an American Reform rabbi.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cohen was raised in Florida, where she earned a B.A. in public relations at University of Florida, graduating in 1993.[1] She then studied at Hebrew Union College's Israel, Cincinnati and New York City campuses,[2] where she graduated in 1999[3] and was ordained at Manhattan's Temple Emanuel.[2] That year she joined Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee, as assistant rabbi.[2]
In 2003, Beth Israel Congregation of Jackson, Mississippi, hired Cohen as its sole rabbi, the "only pulpit rabbi in Jackson".[4] She simultaneously served as the rabbi of Lexington, Mississippi's Temple Beth El.[5]
In 2013, The Forward named Cohen one of its 36 inspiring rabbis.[6]
Cohen became rabbi of Temple Emanuel Sinai in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2014.[7]