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

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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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