Profile
Bradley Cohen - Founder/Director
Having completed a BA Hons Philosophy Degree at the University of Manchester, UK, where he focused largely on the Indian Philosophy modules, and passing an intensive CELTA course (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) in the top 15% of the country, All for the Kids Founder and Director, Bradley Cohen, lived in Asia for 6 years, including a year in India and Nepal. He spent much time volunteering in orphanages, most prominently in Bihar – India’s poorest state, and Tamil Nadu in the South. Therefore he knows the local culture, their needs, and he has contact with projects and close trust and friendships with the local people running them.
He has a deep understanding of the traditions and practices that spiritual searchers are attracted to. Bradley taught Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Rajaphat University in Petchburi, Thailand, and studied Indian philosophy at Manchester University. He teaches qi gong and breath meditation having spent many months in programs and temples throughout South East Asia, as well as having a black belt in Taekwondo and a brown belt in Aikido. He is very familiar with Vipassana meditation which is a highly popular program amongst Israelis in India. Having spent a large portion of his time in India with Israelis, Bradley is familiar with the target audience –Israeli backpackers, their mentality, their whereabouts and their aims.
After leaving, Asia, Bradley came to Israel and studied in yeshiva for over a year, discovering the deep wisdom and spiritual insight of Torah Judaism. Half way through his studies he left to volunteer in an orphanage in Malawi, Africa, where he restructured the education programme, created a vegetable garden, trained the teachers and collected donations from the nearby larger towns.
He has recently organised and completed a fundraising walk which saw him walk the entire 960 km length of Israel from north to south in 40 days, which raised money for children’s charities in Africa and Israel, as well as receiving extensive worldwide press. Therefore has knowledge of and connection to the land to which he made Aliyah in November 2008.
Bradley has experience running 10-day programs for a range of ‘English as a Foreign Language’ students across Asia and has staffed Jewish youth camps in England and France. At the age of 16 he set up and ran ‘Saturdaze,’ a youth group for 9 year olds at his synagogue in London.
In July and August 2008 Bradley was a fellow at the PresenTense Institute, in late August he was a fellow on the South African Jewish Leadership Initiative, in October he carried out Schlichut for the World Zionist Organisation in a number of cities in Germany to inspire local Jews to create the life they choose and their connection to Judaism and he is currently a fellow on the Young Leaders Fellowship run by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Bradley works part time teaching English to refugees from Darfur, in Jerusalem.