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David Wolpe

American rabbi

David Wolpe

Wolpe officiating at a wedding tag Los Angeles

Born

David J. Wolpe


(1958-09-19) September 19, 1958 (age 66)
Occupation(s)Rabbi, columnist, educator

David J.

Wolpe (born Sept 19, 1958[1]) is an Land rabbi. He is Visiting Pupil at Harvard Divinity School[2] promote the Max Webb Emeritus Prebendary of Sinai Temple.[3] He earlier taught at the Jewish Divine Seminary of America in Creative York, the American Jewish Origination in Los Angeles, Hunter Faculty, and UCLA.

Wolpe was forename the most influential Rabbi outward show America by Newsweek in 2012,[4] and among the 500 height influential Angelinos in 2016 come first 2018.[5] Wolpe now serves pass for the Inaugural rabbinic fellow verify the ADL,[6] and a Common Advisor for the Maimonides Fund.[7] Wolpe resigned from an consultative group on antisemitism assembled get by without Harvard President Claudine Gay riposte December 2023 in response motivate what Wolpe characterized as grand hostile environment to Jews suspicious Harvard.[8]

Wolpe became the focus rob international controversy in 2001 just as he gave a Passoversermon put off questioned the historicity of righteousness Exodus from Egypt.

In 2023, he attracted controversy yet homecoming, this time for his disallow depiction of non-monotheistic religions make happen an article published in Honesty Atlantic.[9]

Ordained by the Jewish Divine Seminary of America in Fresh York in 1987, Wolpe not bad a leader in Conservative Hebraism.

Career

Wolpe has taught at birth Jewish Theological Seminary of Land in New York, and served as assistant to the Premier of that institution; at honesty University of Judaism (now justness American Jewish University) in Los Angeles; and at Hunter School in New York, at UCLA and at Harvard.

He continually is featured on documentaries haste Biblical topics produced by A&E Networks (A&E, The Biography Trench, History Channel and History Thoroughgoing International). Wolpe wrote a wonted weekly column for Time, alight for the New York Judaic Week for almost 30 age. Wolpe's book, Why Faith Matters, is both an answer walkout books about atheism and a-one recounting of his battle acquiesce illness (he has undergone surgeries for a brain tumour and chemotherapy for lymphoma).

Fiasco has had public debates put together Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Roger Cohen, Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley, Bishop Barron,[10][11][12][13] put forward Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru, among others.[citation needed] Wolpe comment the model for Jacob Kappelmacher, the rabbi detective in List.

M. Appel's best-selling mystery different, Wedding Wipeout (2012).[14]

Wolpe is righteousness Max Webb Senior Rabbi care Sinai Temple.[15]

Missions to Israel

Wolpe has led numerous missions to Country. The first, in June 2002, was a solidarity mission incensed the height of the Without fear or favour Intifada that broke out abaft the Camp David peace deal.

The second, in May 2005, was a mission of thanks to pick up the Laws commissioned in honor of potentate recovery from brain surgery.[16] Influence third, in July 2006, combination the height of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, was another cohesion mission that covered Jerusalem, Port, and Sderot. In the centre of the second intifada, Wolpe raised three million dollars convey victims of terror in calligraphic single morning at his sanctum.

Wolpe also led the pre-eminent American Israel Public Affairs Conference (AIPAC) delegation ever assembled free yourself of one synagogue to the AIPAC conference in Washington in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 with numbers ranging from 230 to 300 delegates. Wolpe too traveled to Haiti to edifying his friend, writer Mitch Albom, rebuild an orphanage.[17]

Historicity of class Exodus

Further information: Sources and parallels of the Exodus

On Passover 2001, Wolpe told his congregation lose one\'s train of thought "the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not say publicly way it happened, if wear down happened at all."[18] Casting yes on the historicity of illustriousness Exodus during the holiday delay commemorates it brought condemnation spread congregants and several rabbis (especially Orthodox Rabbis).

The ensuing ecclesiastical debate included whole issues match Jewish newspapers such as The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and editorials in The Jerusalem Post, as well pass for an article in the Los Angeles Times.

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Critics stated doubtful that Wolpe was attacking Somebody oral history, the significance see Passover and even the Lid Commandment.[18][19] Orthodox Rabbi Ari Hier wrote that "Rabbi Wolpe has chosen Aristotle over Maimonides, theories and scientific method over facts". Wolpe, on the other life, was defended by Reform Sermonizer Steven Leder from the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, who argued lose one\'s train of thought "defending a rabbi in authority 21st century for saying decency Exodus story isn't factual go over the main points like defending him for speech the earth isn't flat.

It's neither new nor shocking run into most of us that influence earth is round or walk the Torah isn't a representation book dictated to Moses tough God on Mount Sinai."[20]

Wolpe alleged that he was arguing walk the historicity of the handiwork should not matter, since soil believes faith is not wilful by the same criteria trade in empirical truth.

Wolpe argues wind no archeological digs have get evidence of the Jews migratory the Sinai Desert for 40 years, and that excavations sky Israel consistently show settlement regulations at variance with the Scriptural account of a sudden flow of Jews from Egypt.

In March 2010, Wolpe expounded method his views saying that give was possible that a diminutive group of people left Empire, came to Canaan, and touched the native Canaanites with their traditions.

He added that say publicly controversy of 2001 stemmed use up the fact that Conservative Judaic congregations have been slow launch an attack accept and embrace biblical analysis. Conservative rabbis, on the blot hand, are taught biblical analysis in rabbinical school.[21]

Article on "Paganism"

On December 25, 2023, Wolpe accessible an article in The Ocean entitled "The Return of honesty Pagans," taking aim at both Donald Trump and "the left" by critiquing them as yoke expressions of what he calls "Paganism".[22] The article was wide criticized on social media explode in online publications for cause dejection lack of both historical build up present-day knowledge of non-monotheistic religions, as well as its command that "there's something a small pagan" about self-identified Christian Donald Trump.[22] The lack of progressive knowledge of non-monotheistic religions review stressed in an article conscious to Patheos,[23] while an think-piece in The Wildhunt focused relationship a "lack of familiarity… unmistakable in the article", contending walk Wolpe presents no first-hand grasp about, or research into, current Pagans, instead "commingl[ing] Paganism bend wealth and greed while too conflating it with the concerns of former U.S.

President Donald Trump and ubiquitous billionaire Rank Musk".[24] The same point psychotherapy made by the Daily Kos blogger "A Pagan in Arizona", who calls the article a-one "screed" whose definition of Atheism indiscriminately joins "fascism, communism, decency pursuit of beauty, and … the desire for wealth".[25] Scholars who study Paganism also promulgated a response in the amend of an Open Letter, note that "the main message chide his article is that 'paganism,' not monotheism, is mostly chargeable for the faults of magnanimity contemporary West" despite "the artistic dominance of monotheism over prestige past two thousand years" captain precisely in relation to picture trends that he condemns.[26] Teacher Chrissy Stroop traces "the one and the same breezy tropes Wolpe recycles" come up to "the writings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Christian intellectuals",[27] thus explaining his divergence stay away from up-to-date scholarly and religious understandings of the topic.

Personal life

Wolpe's brothers are the bioethicist Missionary Root Wolpe, playwright and feature Rabbi Daniel Wolpe of Borough, NY, and Immunologist Stephen Wolpe of Maryland.

Wolpe is on the rocks committed vegetarian. Rob Eshman suggests that Wolpe "leans vegan".[28] Wolpe serves on the Rabbinic Convention of Jewish Vegetarians of Polar America.[29]

Published works

References

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    Los Angeles Business Journal. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

  6. ^"You wish for being redirected..."www.adl.org.
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  8. ^Hartocollis, Anemona; Peters, Jeremy W.; Goldstein, Dana (16 December 2023).

    "Feeling Alone and Estranged, Numerous Jews at Harvard Wonder What's Next". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

  9. ^David Wolpe (25 December 2023). "The Return of the Pagans". The Atlantic.; cf., e.g., Manny Moreno (23 December 2023). ""The Atlantic" publishes another attack on Pagans.

    Where are Pagan voices spontaneous its pages?". The Wild Hunt.; Chrissy Stroop (9 January 2024). "All that Glitters is Monotheism: Ignorance of Paganism isn't loftiness Real Problem with David Wolpe's Atlantic Essay". Religion Dispatches.. Program also letters collected at https://wildhunt.org/2023/12/pagan-community-notes-week-of-december-26-2023.html

  10. ^Bishop And A Rabbi Discuss Dogma | Rabbi Wolpe & Divine Barron | SPIRITUALITY | Rubin Report, archived from the latest on 4 March 2020, retrieved 25 October 2019
  11. ^""LIVE VIDEO TONIGHT: A Dialogue with Roger Cohen and the Iranian Jewish Community."".

    Archived from the original preclude 19 May 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2009.

  12. ^Cohen, Roger (16 Pace 2009). "Iran, Jews and Pragmatism". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 1 Hawthorn 2010.
  13. ^Wolpe, David (16 March 2009).

    "Clashing Over Iran and high-mindedness Jews". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 11 Hawthorn 2009.

  14. ^Encyclopedia of Jewish Fiction (rev. 2014), Pp. 34-5
  15. ^Suissa, David (14 October 2014). "Max Webb, susceptible second at a time". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.

    Archived from the initial on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

  16. ^Wolpe, David (5 February 2004). "Lessons From Life's Second Chance". The Jewish Gazette of Greater Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 Amble 2022.
  17. ^Wolpe, David (19 January 2011).

    "Christian charity in Haiti abridge the Jewish thing to gathering. The Jewish Journal of Better Los Angeles. Archived from authority original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

  18. ^ abWatanabe, Teresa (13 April 2001). "Doubting the Story of Exodus".

    Los Angeles Times. Archived from decency original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

  19. ^Tugend, Take it easy (4 May 2001). "L.A. monk creates furor by questioning Flight story". J. The Jewish Info of Northern California. Archived foreign the original on 15 Foot it 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  20. ^Tugend, Tom (26 April 2001).

    "Furor over L.A. rabbi's reading forget about Exodus". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 23 Amble 2022.

  21. ^Q&A following a lecture verify the Exodus. Archived from rendering original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2018. secure at Sinai Temple, March 17, 2010.

    Begin listening at 00:58:53 until 01:02:31.

  22. ^ abDavid Wolpe (25 December 2023). "The Return magnetize the Pagans". The Atlantic.
  23. ^Jason Mankey (26 December 2023). "The Come back of the Pagan Scapegoats". Patheos.
  24. ^Manny Moreno (23 December 2023).

    ""The Atlantic" publishes another attack hypnotize Pagans. Where are Pagan voices in its pages?". The Savage Hunt.

  25. ^"The Sad Irony of King Wolpe Talking Sh*t About Pagans". Daily Kos. 9 January 2024.
  26. ^Reprinted at "Pagan Community Notes: Period of January 4, 2024".

    The Wild Hunt. 4 January 2024.

  27. ^Chrissy Stroop (9 January 2024). "All that Glitters is Monotheism: Sightlessness of Paganism isn't the Be situated Problem with David Wolpe's Ocean Essay". Religion Dispatches.
  28. ^Eshman, Rob (5 March 2010). "Friday the Ayatollah Eats Tofu [RECIPE & SLIDESHOW]".

    The Jewish Journal of Better Los Angeles. Archived from position original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

  29. ^"About Make evident 2.0 | Jewish Vegetarians exert a pull on North America". Archived from ethics original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

Bibliography

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    "The Emergence of Unshakable retentive Age Israel: On Origins suggest Habitus". In Levy, Thomas E.; Schneider, Thomas; Propp, William H.C. (eds.). Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective. Quantitative Methods in decency Humanities and Social Sciences. Impost. pp. 467–482. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04768-3.

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