Cohen (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Cohen may refer to:
  • Kohen
    Kohen
    A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

    , a Jewish priest
  • Cohen (surname)
    Cohen (surname)
    Cohen is a Jewish surname of biblical origins . It is a very common Jewish surname, comparable to 'Smith' in an English-language context....

    , a common Jewish surname


Media

  • Cohen the Barbarian, a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  • Cha Cha Cohen
    Cha Cha Cohen
    Cha Cha Cohen were a band formed in 1994 by three members of The Wedding Present — Keith Gregory, Paul Dorrington and Simon Smith. After recruiting singer Jacqui Cohen from The Dustdevils they released a single, "Sparky's Note", on Hemiola Records....

    , a band formed in 1994 including singer Jacqui Cohen
  • Matt Cohen Prize
    Matt Cohen Prize
    The Matt Cohen Prize is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer, in honour of a distinguished lifetime contribution to Canadian literature...

    , an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer
  • Shaughnessy Cohen Award
    Shaughnessy Cohen Award
    The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best non-fiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It was presented for the first time in 2000....

    , a Canadian literary award
  • Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

    , a folk singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.
  • Roger Cohen
    Roger Cohen
    Roger Cohen is a British-born journalist and author. He is a columnist for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in fifteen different countries.- Biography :...

    , a British-born journalist and author. He is a columnist for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

Locations

  • The Cohen Building of The Judd School
    The Judd School
    The Judd School is a state secondary school in Tonbridge, Kent, southeast England. It was established in 1888 at Stafford House on East Street in Tonbridge, where it remained for eight years before moving to its present location on Brook Street, in the south of the town...

    in Tonbridge, England
  • Cohen-kuhi Tau/4
    Cohen-kuhi Tau/4
    Distance~420 lyCoKu Tau/4 is a pre-main-sequence binary T Tauri star system in the constellation Taurus. The stars are surrounded by a circumbinary disc with a central cavity of radius 10 astronomical units...

    , a star 420 light-years away from Earth in the Taurus Constellation

Science

  • Saul B. Cohen
    Saul B. Cohen
    Saul B. Cohen is an American human geographer.Cohen graduated at Harvard University just before the faculty closed its Department of Geography . He is President emeritus of the Queens College and was Professor of Geography at the Hunter College in New York.- Publications :*Israel's Fishing...

    , an American human geographer
  • Cohen–Macaulay ring, a particular type of commutative ring in mathematics
  • Cohen Modal Haplotype, a DNA signature identified with Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses
  • Cohen's kappa
    Cohen's kappa
    Cohen's kappa coefficient is a statistical measure of inter-rater agreement or inter-annotator agreement for qualitative items. It is generally thought to be a more robust measure than simple percent agreement calculation since κ takes into account the agreement occurring by chance. Some...

    , a statistical measure of inter-rater reliability

Law

  • Clinger–Cohen Act, a United States federal law that is designed to improve the way the federal government acquires and manages information technology
  • Flast v. Cohen
    Flast v. Cohen
    Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 , was a United States Supreme Court case holding that a taxpayer has standing to sue the government to prevent an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds....

    ,
    a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that a taxpayer has standing to sue the government to prevent an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds
  • Cohen v. California
    Cohen v. California
    Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech. The Court overturned a disturbing the peace conviction of a man wearing a jacket decorated with profanity.-Background of the case:...

    ,
    a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech
  • Cohen v. Cowles Media Co.
    Cohen v. Cowles Media Co.
    Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., 501 U.S. 663 , was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that freedom of the press does not exempt journalists from generally applicable laws....

    ,
    a U.S. Supreme Court case establishing that freedom of the press does not exempt newspapers from generally applicable laws
  • Cohens v. Virginia
    Cohens v. Virginia
    Cohens v. Virginia, , was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for John Marshall and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when the plaintiff claims that their Constitutional rights have been violated...

    ,
    a U.S. Supreme Court decision most noted for the Marshall Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters
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