With You on Your Jewish Journey
Our clergy help you find your way to where you aspire to be. Our dynamic and enthusiastic rabbis and cantors open the portals to Jewish living and help you build your own Jewish future. Leading prayer, teaching classes, telling stories to preschoolers, encouraging bnei mitzvah, or comforting mourners, our clergy inspire us as individuals and as a community.
Rabbis
Elliot Cosgrove, PhD
Rabbi ecosgrove@pasyn.orgRabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, began his tenure at Park Avenue Synagogue in 2008. A leading voice in the Conservative Movement, he follows a tradition of distinguished rabbinical predecessors on the pulpit here, including Rabbi Milton Steinberg, Rabbi Judah Nadich, and Rabbi David H. Lincoln.
Neil Zuckerman
Rabbi nzuckerman@pasyn.orgRabbi Neil Zuckerman came to PAS in 2010 as Director of Congregational Education and joined the clergy team as Associate Rabbi in 2014.
Shayna Golkow Zauzmer
Associate Rabbi szauzmer@pasyn.orgRabbi Shayna Golkow Zauzmer, who was the congregation’s rabbinic intern from 2017 to 2019, returned as assistant rabbi in 2022 and became associate rabbi in 2024.
Rabbi Lori Koffman
Rabbi, Director of Adult Engagement lkoffman@pasyn.orgRabbi Lori Koffman joined Park Avenue Synagogue in June of 2021 as Rabbi and Director of Adult Engagement. Prior to this, she was the Director of Engagement and Innovation for USCJ, where she developed educational, social, and issue-based programs with an emphasis on building connection and community among members.
Aiden Pink
Rabbinic Intern apink@pasyn.orgAiden Pink is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbinic Intern at Park Avenue Synagogue.
Cantors
Azi Schwartz
Cantor aschwartz@pasyn.orgCantor Azi Schwartz is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches both Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally. His craft of Jewish liturgical music has been described as emotionally moving, spiritually uplifting, and artistically dynamic.
Mira Davis
Cantor mdavis@pasyn.orgCantor Mira Davis currently serves as the Assistant Cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. She recently graduated from the H. L. Miller cantorial school at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Arielle Reisner
Cantor Educator AReisner@pasyn.orgAfter two fabulous years as the cantorial intern at Park Avenue Synagogue, Cantor Arielle Reisner began her career at the Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver, Colorado. She is excited to be back as a part of the clergy team at PAS.
Sierra J. Fox
Cantorial Intern SFox@pasyn.orgSierra Jade Fox (she/her) is a fourth-year cantorial student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music. Before beginning her cantorial studies, she served as a soloist and ensemble singer with a vast number of sacred and secular choirs in the Greater Philadelphia area, while also touring throughout the United States, Europe, and South America.