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David Wolpe
Rabbi, Author
1958 –
Who is David Wolpe?
David J. Wolpe is an author, public speaker and rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, California. Named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, Wolpe was named one of The Forward's 50, and one of the hundred most influential people in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine. Author of seven books and a frequent television guest, Wolpe writes a weekly column in The Jewish Week.
Wolpe became the focus of international controversy when he gave a Passover sermon that questioned the historicity of the Exodus from Egypt. Ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York in 1987, Wolpe is a leader in Conservative Judaism.
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- Born
- 1958
- Religion
- Judaism
- Profession
- Education
- Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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on July 23, 2013
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