Elliot CosgroveRabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD, is a leading voice of American Jewry, and a preeminent spiritual guide and thought leader. The Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue since 2008, he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1999 and erned his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He sits on the Chancellor's Cabinet of Jewish Theological Seminary and on the Editorial Board of Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism. An officer of the New York Board of Rabbis, he serves on the boards of UJA-Federation of New York, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Hillel of University of Michigan, 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. A frequent contributor to Jewish journals and periodicals, he is the author of 15 volumes of sermons and the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time. Read More Read Less