Elyssa Cohen is a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is currently working and living in Pennsylvania and writing at tacklingtorah.blogspot.org. Elyssa has worked as the programming assistant at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City for the past two years. Prior to that, she served as a community organizer for Keshet in Boston (through the Jewish Organizing Initiative Fellowship program). She has taught children and adults in various Jewish community settings; she served as a youth educator at Temple Sinai in Brookline, MA, and Temple Emmanuel in Newtown, MA.