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Hear sermons, conversations, and select programs from Rabbi Cosgrove and the entire Park Avenue Synagogue clergy team to help round out your day. Don’t forget to subscribe to get a notification for our next episode. Listen to live recorded sessions and feel like you’re there at PAS! Find more information at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavenuesyn.
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In this week's podcast, Rabbi Cosgrove is in dialogue with Rabbis Wendy Zierler and Joshua Garroway, as they discuss America's truth crisis from both the Jewish and civil perspectives. This is a topic that Rabbis Zierler and Garroway cover in their recent book, These Truths We Hold: Judaism in an Age of Truthiness, which they both authored and edited.
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Tuesday May 23, 2023
Facing History
Tuesday May 23, 2023
Tuesday May 23, 2023
In the latest episode Rabbi Cosgrove discusses his recent White House visit to represent our community to celebrate Jewish Heritage Month. While he met many notables at an evening event, he was also present to hear President Biden’s inspiring message about moral behavior in our times as well as his strong response to antisemitsm.
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Tuesday May 16, 2023
Teens: A Mental Health Emergency
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Our country and our community are seeing an unprecedented mental health crisis among our youth. Rabbi Cosgrove counsels that every one of us has a role in making the young people in our lives feel seen while helping them find their way to mental stability.
If you are thinking about harming yourself or attempting suicide, tell someone who can help right away.
You can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which provides 24-hour, confidential support to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Support is also available via live chat. Call 911 for emergency services.
If you are a teen in our community who needs someone to talk or a parent concerned about a teen, reach out to any of our clergy members or Ariel Glueck, Director of Teen and Youth Programs, at aglueck@pasyn.org.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
This week, Rabbi Cosgrove is joined by author, former broadcast journalist, and Park Avenue Synagogue member, Dr. Georgette Bennett. Listen as they discuss her human rights work in Syria, the origins of anti-religious violence, and her recent books Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: How One Woman Confronted the Greatest Humanitarian Crisis of Our Time and Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Tuesday May 02, 2023
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? Exploring this central verse from the Torah, Rabbi Cosgrove shares an unexpected interpretation that teaches us how to repair relationships and make ourselves whole.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Friday Apr 28, 2023
Conversations with Cosgrove: From the Dugout with Ben Zauzmer
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
In this special edition podcast in honor of the start of baseball season, Rabbi Cosgrove is in dialogue with New York Mets Assistant General Manager, and Park Avenue Synagogue member, Ben Zauzmer. Listen as they discuss new rules, how analytics impacts today's game, and more. Listen to this bonus episode ahead of the Mets-Braves matchup this weekend at Citi Field!
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
To a Non-Zionist Gen Z-er
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
How should we respond to a non-Zionist Gen Z-er? Responding to a young person’s rejection of Zionism, Rabbi Cosgrove engages with the question in all its complexity.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Listen as Rabbi Cosgrove prepares to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut – Israel's Independence Day – by speaking to Rick Richman, author of And None Shall Make Them Afraid: Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel, which presents individuals who played a pivotal role in the history of the State of Israel.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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Friday Apr 14, 2023
Conversations with Cosgrove: Garden of the Righteous with Richard Hurowitz
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
In this special edition of the podcast, Rabbi Cosgrove speaks with author Richard Hurowitz about his new book, In the Garden of the Righteous, which illustrates previously unknown stories of righteous gentiles, who at risk to their own lives, saved Jews from certain death during the Holocaust. Hurowitz will also speak at Park Avenue Synagogue on Monday, April 17 at 7:00 pm in honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Take Me Out to the Seder!
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Baseball games and the Passover Seder are both harbingers of spring. Rabbi Cosgrove explores what else these two rites have in common and what we can learn from cherishing them both.
For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.
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