David Wolpe
@RabbiWolpe
Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi @SinaiTemple. Scholar in Residence, @maimonidesfund, Taught @Harvard, @UCLA, @JTSVoice, Author, Columnist.
France to recognize a Palestinian state through which their Gallic integrity will once more be Vichy-ated.
Especially if you are a parent of a grown child, this poem will move you:
Physicists posit the ‘many worlds’ interpretation which presumably includes one in which people believe Jihadists are bad and Jews good.
“The NEA described the Holocaust as having '12 million victims' from 'different faiths' without mentioning the attempted extermination of the Jewish people” freebeacon.com/america/larges…
Being a Rabbi in a community is often hugely demanding. Rav Amital used to say he couldn’t attend the party because of a family simcha (celebration.) If pushed to explain he said, “For my family when I’m able to be home it’s a simcha!”
Isreal securing 6th place in global Mathematical Olympiad | The Jerusalem Post jpost.com/israel-news/ar…
The friction of community- in meetings, meals, debate, shared joy- keeps us warm. Don’t outsource your embrace to a smooth screen. What is easy is rarely profound.
My latest piece in @JewishJournal on the recent IRS interpretation allowing clergy to preach politics--bottom line- BAD IDEA!! @DavidSuissaJJ @RabbiWolpe jewishjournal.com/commentary/col…
I long for the time when we expected public figures to express themselves as models for our children. Articulate and thoughtful speech knows no party.
Jewish students are censoring themselves because ostracism and intimidation work. We need to better build Jewish spaces and Jewish backbones. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
“…it’s impossible to fully separate a philosophical Zionism from the context of pogrom, expulsion, blood libel, and slaughter. …As for Jesus being a Palestinian, this is just fashionable propaganda..Jesus was a Judean, a Jew…” spectator.co.uk/article/the-pa…
Don’t confuse wishes with estimations of probabilities. I wish for a peaceful & flourishing Palestine beside Israel; for a balanced & successful Harvard & university system; for a world in which weapons of mass destruction had no useful purpose and therefore did not exist.
We live in Jerusalem & during the Iran campaign we were in Riverdale, New York for my wife's smicha & then in DC. I wondered how much hate we might encounter in NYC. No one so much as looked at me funny, BH. And I walked around with a kippah the whole time. New Yorkers were much…
I know we all worry about division and pettiness but I’ve just been in an ER (visiting) an Uber and an airplane and there is still a lot of competence, decency and trust in our blessed nation.
Wishing you a Shabbat of kindness and calm- #shabbatshalom
All these lawyers weighing in on the Epstein case leads me to suspect there is an Epstein-bar virus…
Jacob wrestled with the angel; Joseph thrown into a pit; Naomi bereaved of husband & sons. Torah teaches life is not about ease but overcoming. "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" (Keats.) #shabbatshalom
I spoke w some Jewish students & alumni at @Columbia who are skeptical that the university’s deal w the Trump admin will have a significant impact on protecting Jewish students, but rather see the deal, which has not been finalized, as “largely symbolic.” jewishinsider.com/2025/07/columb…