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David Wolpe
David J. Wolpe (born 1958) is an author, public speaker and rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, California. Named the most influential rabbi in America by ''Newsweek Magazine'' (2012) and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the ''Jerusalem Post'' (2012), 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.
==Career==
Wolpe has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, and served as assistant to the Chancellor of that institution; at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University) in Los Angeles; and at Hunter College in New York. Wolpe is a regular contributor to several publications such as ''The Jewish Week'', ''The Jerusalem Post'', ''Los Angeles Times''. He frequently is featured on documentaries on Biblical topics produced by A&E Networks (A&E, The Biography Channel, History Channel and History Channel International). He has also appeared as a commentator on NBC ''The Today Show'', CBS ''Face The Nation'', CNN, and CBS ''This Morning''. Wolpe's most recent book, ''Why Faith Matters'', is both an answer to books about atheism and a recounting of his battle with illness (he has undergone two surgeries for a brain tumor and chemotherapy for lymphoma). He has had public debates with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Roger Cohen, Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley,〔("LIVE VIDEO TONIGHT: A Dialogue with Roger Cohen and the Iranian Jewish Community." )〕 and Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru, among others. Wolpe is the model for Jacob Kappelmacher, the rabbi detective in J. M. Appel's best-selling mystery novel, ''Wedding Wipeout'' (2012).〔''Encyclopedia of Jewish Fiction (rev. 2014), Pp. 34-5〕
Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple.〔David Suissa, (Max Webb, one second at a time ), ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', October 14, 2014〕
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