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Rabbi David Wolpe

Rabbi David Wolpe

Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple

Named The Most Influential Rabbi in AmericabyNewsweekand one of the50 Most Influential Jews in the WorldbyTheJerusalem Post, and twice named one of the500 Most Influential People in Los Angelesby the Los Angeles Business Journal, David Wolpe is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple. He serves as the ADL’s inaugural rabbinic fellow and a scholar in residence at the Maimonides Fund. Rabbi Wolpe has taught at Harvard, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the American Jewish University, Hunter College, and UCLA. Rabbi Wolpe has published widely, including in The New York Times,Los Angeles Times,Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and The Atlantic. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS This Morning as well as 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 the author of eight books, including the national bestsellerMaking Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times (Riverhead). His latest is titledDavid, the Divided Heart (Yale U Press). It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros.

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Honors/Awards

  • Named one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People (Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, 2024)
  • Named one of the Five Hundred Most Influential People in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Business Journal, 2016 & 2017)
  • Named part of the Voices on the Jewish 100 (The Algemeiner, 2013)
  • Named one of the Fifty Most Influential Jews in the World (Jerusalem Post, 2012)
  • Named the Number One Rabbi in America (Newsweek, 2012)
  • Offered the benediction at the Democratic National Convention (2012)
  • Named one of the Fifty Most Important Rabbis in America (Newsweek, 2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Named one of the One Hundred Most Influential Angelinos (Los Angeles Magazine, 2006)
  • Named one of One Hundred Most Influential Jews in the United States (Forward, 2003)
  • Winner of the Human Spirit Award from the Wellness Community
  • Winner of the Simon Rockower Award for Jewish Journalism (2009)
  • Award for Excellence in Single Commentary by the American Jewish Press Association (2005)

David-Divided-Heart
Rabbi David Wolpe’s Most Recent Book

It’s the second David project in the works in Hollywood. Variety reported in July that Fox, Chernin Entertainment and Ridley Scott were developing a movie focusing on the King of Israel, following the battle of David and Goliath.

The studio has optioned movie rights to the recently published book David: The Divided Heart, by Rabbi David Wolpe. Warner Bros. and Gulfstream are co-financing the project’s development.

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