The City Council Wednesday approved Rabbi Aryeh Eli Cohen for a five-year term on the City Ethics Commission, ending June 30, 2028.
The council voted 14-0 to confirm Cohen, with Councilwoman Traci Park absent during the vote.
City Controller Kenneth Mejia nominated Cohen after the council had rejected Mejia's prior nominee, Reseda Neighborhood Council President Jamie York.
Cohen, a city resident since 1995, is a professor of rabbinic literature at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the American Jewish University.