David J. Wolpe is an American rabbi. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School and is now the Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. Wolpe was named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek in 2012, and among the 500 most influential Angelinos in 2016 and 2018. Wolpe now serves as the Inaugural rabbinic fellow for the ADL, and a Senior Advisor for the Maimonides Fund. Wolpe resigned from an advisory group on antisemitism assembled by Harvard President Claudine Gay in December 2023 in response to what Wolpe characterized as a hostile environment to Jews at Harvard.
Across 1 conversation, David Wolpe ranges across Judaism, free will, Torah. David Wolpe argues that the Torah is not a historical or scientific text but a source of wisdom and guidance for life. Judaism's emphasis on the soul and individual importance counters nihilism, according to David Wolpe.
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