Benyamin Cohen is the news direc­tor of The For­ward, and has a bizarre side job as Albert Ein­stein on social media, where he has 20 mil­lion fans. He is the author of The Ein­stein Effect and My Jesus Year. He’s based in West Vir­ginia, where he lives with his wife, three dogs, a cat, and a flock of chick­ens known as the Co-Hens.