Elliot Cosgrove

Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD, began his tenure at Park Avenue Synagogue in 2008. A leading voice in the Conservative Movement, he follows a tradition of distinguished rabbinical predecessors on the pulpit here, including Rabbi Milton Steinberg, Rabbi Judah Nadich, and Rabbi David H. Lincoln. Under Rabbi Cosgrove’s leadership, Park Avenue Synagogue seeks to inspire, educate, and support its membership toward living passion-filled Jewish lives. The rabbi aspires to make Park Avenue Synagogue a beit tefillah, a beit midrash, and a beit knesset – a house of prayer, learning, and gathering – and a kehillah kedoshah, a holy congregation, where national Jewish conversations are lived.
Jewish Americans and supporters of Israel gather in solidarity with Israel and protest against antisemitism, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, during a rally on the National Mall in Washington, U.S, November 14, 2023

Top Conservative rabbi to 'Post': This is how US Jews can keep hope alive for Israel - opinion

Here is my personal set of resolutions for keeping the flame of hope alive that tomorrow will indeed be a better day and that 5785 will start a new narrative for the Jewish people.

OCTOBER 7, 2024
High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Is it possible to choose between 'Jewishness' and Israel?

After a week like this one, I find myself caught between values that are core to my very being.

MARCH 9, 2021
Israeli troops near Rafah during the Six Day War

What a difference 50 years can make

The world in the spring of 1967 was very different than the world as it is today.

JUNE 7, 2017

For the sake of Zion

American Jewry must speak out on behalf of Israel, in public, in private, advocates in word and in deed.

MAY 16, 2017
NOA REPRESENTED Israel, but she’s too controversial for some American Jews. The author looks at poisonous discussions about Israel in the Diaspora

Between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day

For Jews, anxiety and opportunity are not opposites, they are interdependent partners, the basic elements that impel us forward.

APRIL 26, 2017
Hundreds rally in New York to support Israel

Now is the time for Israel and American Jewry to work together

What a bitter irony to live in a world in which Israel is the one country in which a Jew does not have the freedom to express his or her Judaism.

DECEMBER 28, 2016
Western Wall