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Rabbi David Wolpe – What is the Jewish Future in America?
February 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
What is the Jewish Future in America?
Rabbi David Wolpe will speak to our community.
Rabbi David Wolpe has been recognized as The Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and a Rabbinic Fellow with the ADL. Rabbi Wolpe serves as the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and as a Senior Advisor to the Maimonides Fund. He is the bestselling author of eight books, and numerous articles in leading newspapers and journals.
Rabbi Wolpe has previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, Pepperdine, and UCLA. Rabbi Wolpe has been published and profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic and many more, as well as writing weekly columns for Time, the Jerusalem Post and the NY Jewish Week. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS This Morning.
In addition, Rabbi Wolpe has appeared prominently in series on PBS, A&E, History Channel, and Discovery Channel, and has engaged in widely watched public debates with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and many others about religion and its place in the world.
Rabbi Wolpe is a board member of the AJC’s Jewish-Muslim interfaith council, part of the Elijah interfaith consortium, and active in cross cultural learning throughout the world. He has spoken in seminars, public and scholarly forums, and scholar in residence appearances hundreds of times all over the world from Israel to India, and is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times (Riverhead). His most recent book is titled David, the Divided Heart (Yale U Press), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.