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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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Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
On April 5, 1964, James Farmer, the national director of the Congress for Racial Equality, spoke at PAS on the topic of "Contemporary Moral Issues." His lecture, presented more than 55 years ago, resonates today as we continue to confront inequities in our society.
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky calls on Jews engage in conversations about justice and inequality. We cannot stay on the sidelines of Black Lives Matter, but must work to make our community an anti-racist one. We must stay in the conversation, even when we are uncomfortable with certain aspects of a protest movement.
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Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Rabbi Cosgrove reminds us that public speech can change the world and also destroy it. Important as public protest may be, giving feedback privately will often forward our causes better than rash responses in social media.
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky takes a message of hope from the week’s parashah. For those feeling overwhelmed by challenges, this parashah calls on us to acknowledge our ability to act and do good.
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Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Rabbi Cosgrove shows us how the Bible can provide inspiration, guidance, comfort, and even challenge, as we seek to respond to the systematic racism that infects our country.
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
At any Yizkor service, mourners are called on to stand together – separated in their grief. This year we are “together apart” more than ever. Rabbi Cosgrove urges us to follow the examples of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz, reaching beyond our own pain of loss to help ease the grief of others.
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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky and Rabbinic Intern Viktoria Bedo discuss the disturbing Sotah ritual described in parashat Naso. Is there any meaning to be made from this oppressive ritual? And perhaps most importantly, can the way we treat this Biblical account of privilege and oppressions teach us anything about how to address such issues today?
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Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
This week we begin the book of B’midbar, and we do it with a census of the Israelites (or some of them). Rabbi Witkovsky interviews Benny Witkovsky, a Sociology PhD student who comes from a great family. They talk about the censuses in the Torah and the United States and try to tease some meaning out of those numbers.
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Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
In honor of our annual “Seminary Shabbat,” Rabbi Cosgrove tracks the history of the American Jewish experience through the seven chancellors of the Seminary and raises the question of what sits on the docket of the soon to be announced next chancellor.
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Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky discusses a strange phrase that appears three times in B'har. What does security in our land have to do with the way we treat one another? Listen to find out!
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