Park Avenue Synagogue Podcast

Rabbi Koffman: Choosing Hope Over Fear (Rosh Hashanah Day 1, 2023)

Has fear kept you from realizing your dreams? Rabbi Koffman asserts that we need to confront our fears to live to our greatest potential.

Rabbi Zuckerman: Tethered to Time (Rosh Hashanah Day 2, 2023)

Many aspects of our world, from learning to entertainment, seem to be getting faster and faster, resulting in instant gratification through vapid hurrying, but at what cost? Rabbi Zuckerman expresses why much of life requires deep, intense encounters rather than the feeling of overnight success.

Rabbi Zauzmer: What ChatGPT Teaches Us About Living with a Whole Heart (Rosh Hashanah Day 1, 2023)

Some think artificial intelligence will drastically improve our world, and some think it will destroy us, but it's up to us to figure out how to live in a world with AI. Rabbi Zauzmer explores Jewish perspectives on AI and encourages us to strengthen the muscles which make us human, not machine – our emotions, our empathy, and our compassion.

Rabbi Cosgrove: Missing Pieces (Rosh Hashanah Day 1, 2023)

What did the late Rabbi Harold Kushner mean when he said, “We’re more complete if we’re incomplete”? Rabbi Cosgrove explores how we may understand loss and imperfections in our lives.

 

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Rabbi Zuckerman: Planting a Tree (Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2023)

Scientists and rabbis alike have investigated what we can learn from trees. Rabbi Zuckerman explores the many metaphors for how people are more like trees than one may have thought, and how these lessons apply to our entrance into the new year.

Conversations with Cosgrove: Choosing to Serve with Rabbinic Intern Aiden Pink and Cantorial Intern Sierra Fox

As we enter the Days of Awe leading up to Yom Kippur, enjoy Rabbi Cosgrove in conversation with Rabbinic Intern Aiden Pink and Cantorial Intern Sierra Fox as they discuss what called them to serve the Jewish people.

 

For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.

 

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Conversations with Cosgrove: Judaism Disrupted with Rabbi Michael Strassfeld

To welcome the new year, listen to Rabbi Cosgrove in conversation with Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, one of the editors of The Jewish Catalog, as they discuss his new book, Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century.

 

For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.

 

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Conversations with Cosgrove: Rabbi Heschel and Reverend King with Peter Geffen, Part 2

On the occasions of the recent yahrzeit (death anniversary) of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, Peter Geffen, founder of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City and The Kivunim Institute, and Rabbi Cosgrove discuss in front of a live audience Heschel and King’s relationship and the bridges they built together. This is part two of a special two-part episode.

 

For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.

 

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Conversations with Cosgrove: Rabbi Heschel and Reverend King with Peter Geffen, Part 1

On the occasions of the recent yahrzeit (death anniversary) of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, Peter Geffen, founder of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City and The Kivunim Institute, and Rabbi Cosgrove discuss in front of a live audience Heschel and King’s relationship and the bridges they built together.

 

For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.

 

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Conversations with Cosgrove: Jewish Pride with Ben M. Freeman

This week, Rabbi Cosgrove is joined by Ben M. Freeman, author of two books about, and founder of, the modern "Jewish Pride" movement, as they discuss what the movement means, the forms anti-Jewish sentiment can take, and what people can do to connect to their own identity. Also, discover the roots Rabbi Cosgrove and Freeman share in the Jewish community of Glasgow, Scotland!

 

For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.

 

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