Park Avenue Synagogue Podcast

Park Avenue Synagogue

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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Monday · 19 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: A Stranger and a Resident (November 7, 2026)
Where does a Jew turn when neither side of the political aisle feels like home? Drawing on Abraham’s declaration that he is both stranger and resident, Rabbi Cosgrove reflects on political homelessness, Jewish identity, and the challenge of remaining faithful to our convictions while fully engaged in American civic life.
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November 2 · 21 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: Room in the Tent? (October 31, 2026)
Israel’s election has produced a political deadlock, with neither side able to form a governing coalition. Could cooperation with Arab parties offer a way forward? Drawing on the biblical story of Isaac and Ishmael, Rabbi Cosgrove considers political compromise, the boundaries of belonging, and the future of Israeli democracy.
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October 26 · 18 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: The Journey of Becoming (October 24, 2026)
Are we destined to remain the same, or can we become someone new? Rabbi Cosgrove explores how Abraham’s journey offers a radical promise: Our past may shape us, but it need not define us. At every age and every stage, we retain the capacity to grow, change, and begin again.
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October 19 · 17 min
Rabbi Zuckerman: What Are We Willing to Carry? (October 17, 2026)
Drawing on the community's response to the 1966 fire in the Jewish Theological Seminary library, Rabbi Zuckerman explores a question that runs through the early chapters of Genesis: What does it mean to take responsibility for something precious?
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October 13 · 20 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: Silenced No More (October 10, 2026)
Three years after October 7th, the blood of the victims still cries out. What does that cry demand of us? Drawing on the biblical story of Cain and Abel and a landmark report documenting Hamas’s atrocities, Rabbi Cosgrove reflects on our responsibility to preserve truth against denial, distortion, and erasure.
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October 5 · 13 min
Rabbi Pink: An Eternal Monument (October 3, 2026)
For his Yizkor sermon, Rabbi Pink explains the hidden meaning behind the matzevah, the stone erected to honor a deceased loved one.
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September 28 · 16 min
After the Gates Close (Sukkot, 2026)
As we go from Yom Kippur to Sukkot, Rabbi Zuckerman explains that we must use the inward reflection of Yom Kippur to move outward differently, because if we do not know and tell our own story, others will tell our story for us.
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September 28 · 11 min
Sukkot's Lessons on Communal Togetherness (Sukkot, 2026)
On the second day of Sukkot, Rabbinic Intern Claire Davidson Bruder explores Rabbinic texts about the holiday and its rituals, uncovering Sukkot's call for Jewish unity even in times of strife.
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September 24 · 11 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: Holy Desperation (Yom Kippur, 2026)
As Yom Kippur draws to a close, Rabbi Cosgrove reminds us that life is fleeting and none of us knows how long we will have. He urges us to live today so that were it to be our last day, we would have no regrets.
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September 22 · 15 min
Rabbi Koffman: Every Brilliant Thing (Yom Kippur, 2026)
Rabbi Koffman discusses the very Jewish messages of this Broadway show, and how its teachings are especially appropriate for Yom Kippur.
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September 22 · 27 min
Rabbi Zuckerman: Inheriting Courage (Yom Kippur, 2026)
Recalling moments from the Torah and Jewish history, Rabbi Zuckerman highlights the need for a broader Jewish historical imagination, one that remembers our moments of vulnerability without forgetting our moments of courage - because while trauma has a way of traveling through generations even when no one speaks about it, courage depends on someone telling the story.
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September 22 · 17 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: Out of the Picture (Yom Kippur, 2026)
What do we leave behind when we are no longer in the picture? Through the life and legacy of his mentor, Michael Brooks, Rabbi Cosgrove explains Yizkor not merely as a time to remember those we have lost, but as a call to carry forward their values, their work, and their love.
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September 22 · 17 min
Rabbi Pink: Not Yet (Yom Kippur, 2026)
Doing teshuvah – and, for that matter, making changes of any kind – is tremendously difficult. As Rabbi Pink explains, sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is shift your mindset from "no" to "not yet."
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September 22 · 14 min
Rabbi Zauzmer: The Buried Bowtie (Yom Kippur, 2026)
In the year of Leonard Cohen's tenth yahrzeit, Rabbi Zauzmer honors him not only as the singer-songwriter we all know, but as an inventor of Jewish ritual. His powerful story is a reminder that ritual is how we make holy that which we cannot control.
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September 22 · 28 min
Rabbi Cosgrove: Taking Agency (Kol Nidrei, 2026)
What does it mean to take responsibility for our lives? From Genesis to September 11 to the confessions of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Cosgrove explores Judaism’s insistence that grievance never absolves us of agency, challenging us to stop asking who is to blame and start asking, What is mine to do?
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September 17 · 25 min
Living by Two Clocks (Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
As we enter 5787, Rabbi Zuckerman reflects on the Jewish American experience with a story about Jonas Philips, a Jewish figure in the American Revolution, and discusses how the Jewish calendar is one of the most powerful communicators of Jewish identity that we possess.
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September 15 · 6 min
Forever Expectant (Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
Rabbi Zauzmer illuminates the meaning of the prayer “Hayom Harat Olam” and shares her own experience of pregnancy and expecting.
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September 15 · 32 min
All in the Jewish Family (Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
How can Jews with different relationships to Zionism remain bound to one another? Using history as his guide, Rabbi Cosgrove reflects on Jewish peoplehood, arguing that our future depends on sustaining a shared community capacious enough to hold disagreement without surrendering responsibility for one another.
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September 15 · 18 min
Returning Home (Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
What does it mean to come home to ourselves—and to reckon with the patterns, wounds, and inheritances that have shaped us? Rabbi Cosgrove reflects on teshuvah as the work of return: naming what we carry, changing what we can, and refusing to let the past determine the future.
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September 14 · 7 min
Wonder and Awe (Rosh Hashanah, 2026)
Rabbi Koffman invites us to step back and look at our lives with a fresh perspective – and to respond to the “inconceivable surprise of living” with gratitude, prayer, and wonder.

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