Park Avenue Synagogue Podcast

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.

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?

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.

For his Yizkor sermon, Rabbi Pink explains the hidden meaning behind the matzevah, the stone erected to honor a deceased loved one.

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.