Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: "For Such a Time as This: Being Jewish After October 7"
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, a leading voice of American Jewry, has been the rabbi of New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue since 2008. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999 and earned his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The author of the recently published book, For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today, Rabbi Cosgrove is the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief. His essays and op-eds appear frequently in a variety of national Jewish journals and periodicals.
Among his many professional activities, Rabbi Cosgrove sits on the Chancellor's Cabinet of JTS, where he is adjunct faculty, and is on the Editorial Board of Conservative Judaism. A member of the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly, he is also an officer of the New York Board of Rabbis and a member of the Board of UJA-Federation of New York. He serves as Rabbinical Advisor on Interfaith Affairs for the ADL and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Rabbi Cosgrove was honored to represent the Jewish community at the National September 11 Memorial Museum during the visit of Pope Francis to New York in September 2015.
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