Rabbi Jonathan Israel Kohn has led synagogues in Connecticut, Texas, New York, and Illinois.
He earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1976, an MA in English from the University of Minnesota in 1981, and an MA in Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA) in 1987, from which he was ordained the same year.
He completed his Counseling Internship at the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services, Bronx NY, in 1987.
Rabbi Kohn also studied Bible at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, acting at the State University of New York at Albany, and mathematics at Rutgers University.
Rabbi Kohn is active in the Coalition of Elgin Religious Leaders, serving on the Planning Committee of each year's Interfaith Thanksgiving Service and of most of the Coalition’s other public programs since 2006. He served as guest instructor on Judaism at Bartlett High School in 2010.
He served as Vice President of the Connecticut Valley Rabbinical Assembly and Secretary of the Greater New Haven Board of Rabbis. He has served also on the Talmud faculty at the Rabbi Harry Halpern Hebrew School in Brooklyn NY.
Rabbi Kohn's religious orientation is to the centrist movement of Judaism, which fully embraces both tradition and modern values. He comes also with 25 years of experience in Pastoral Counseling.