Elliot J. Cosgrove, a leading voice of American Jewry, is Senior Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Ordained in 1999 at the Jewish Theological Seminary, he earned a doctorate at the University of Chicago Divinity School and is a Senior Hartman Rabbinic Fellow.
Rabbi Cosgrove sits on the Chancellor’s Cabinet of the Jewish Theological Seminary and on the Editorial Committee 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, and Hillel at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rabbi Cosgrove represented the Jewish community at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum during the visit of Pope Francis to New York in 2015. Rabbi Cosgrove was honored to represent American Jewry at the 2024 White House Hanukkah party. A frequent contributor to Jewish journals and periodicals, he is the author of 16 volumes of sermons, the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time and the author of For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today. He is the host of “Conversations with Cosgrove,” a series on the Park Avenue Synagogue Podcast, which features conversations with thought leaders in the Jewish world and beyond.