Elliot Cosgrove

Elliot Cosgrove is senior rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and author of For Such A Time as This: On Being Jewish Today.

By Elliot Cosgrove

Opinion
Where Have All the Theologians Gone?

Name five contemporary Jewish theologians saying something interesting about Jewish belief who had not already published a major work by 1990. Stumped? So am I. Over the past few months, I have asked my theologically minded colleagues this question, and the responses have been disheartening. Elie Wiesel? He is undoubtedly the premier spokesman on post-Holocaust…

By Elliot Cosgrove Jun 13, 2007 | 4 min read
News
‘Greatest British Jew,’ 85, Synthesized Faith and Modernity

Louis Jacobs, the most prolific and controversial rabbi of contemporary British Jewry, died July 1 in London. He was 85. The cause was esophageal cancer, said his son, Ivor. Jacobs was trained as an Orthodox rabbi, and his theological profile took on international significance in the 1960s when he was barred from a prominent rabbinical…

By Elliot Cosgrove Jul 7, 2006 | 4 min read
Opinion
When a Scholar Became Chancellor

Who is Arnold Eisen? Few of my colleagues in the Conservative rabbinate have ever met this Stanford University professor, who was named last month to replace Ismar Schorsch as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The appointment is sure to shape the character of the premier American institution of Jewish studies and the…

By Elliot Cosgrove May 5, 2006 | 4 min read

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