Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Aryeh Cohen Minneapolis, teaches courses in Talmud, Jewish ethics, and social justice at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University. He works at this university since 1995.

Aryeh Cohen Minneapolis was ordained as a rabbi by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Aryeh Cohen Minneapolis is the author of two books: Rereading Talmud: Gender, Law and the Poetics of Sugyot and Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism. Also, he co-edited the Beginning/Again: Towards a Hermeneutics of Jewish Texts. He has also written about modern figures including Aharon Shmuel Tamares and Emmanuel Levinas.