Join us for our virtual FL JCC Author Series with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, For Such a Time as This; On Being Jewish Today.

The attack by Hamas on Israel on Octo­ber 7 has drawn a clear and irre­versible demar­ca­tion in time. The Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty woke to an unrec­og­niz­able new real­i­ty on the 7th, wit­ness­ing first the hor­ror and sheer bru­tal­i­ty of the atroc­i­ties in Israel, fol­lowed imme­di­ate­ly by the stark and unprece­dent­ed rise in anti­semitism in its after­math.

Knit­ting togeth­er sto­ry­telling with ancient teach­ings, Rab­bi Cos­grove helps nav­i­gate the land­scape of this new real­i­ty and under­stand how we got here, where we are today, and where we might go from here. For Such a Time as This is a guide for a new gen­er­a­tion that is rec­on­cil­ing the past with the present and fac­ing the unknown future with courage, spir­it, and unwa­ver­ing hope.

Rab­bi Elliot J. Cos­grove, Ph.D., is a lead­ing voice in the Con­ser­v­a­tive Jew­ish Move­ment, and a pre­em­i­nent spir­i­tu­al guide and thought leader. The Rab­bi of Park Avenue Syn­a­gogue since 2008, he was ordained at the Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary in 1999 and earned his Ph.D. at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go Divin­i­ty School.