David Wolpe
@RabbiWolpe
Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi @SinaiTemple. Scholar in Residence, @maimonidesfund, Taught @Harvard, @UCLA, @JTSVoice, Author, Columnist.
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…
“We don’t know exactly what the impacts are going to be…we think it’s important to learn from contact with reality.” Reality being, after all, a contact sport.
Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that…
I hear Der Sturmer has an opening
Let’s get real specific: the nation of Israel which from its origin has implemented a worldwide system of theft, mass murder and international blackmail and deception. God will have his vengeance. This “who is they” trick does not intimidate me.
Speaking in Aspen, got the wrong hotel room. There, for the Aspen security forum guest, was a bottle of wine&some crudités. Changed rooms and got Jewish community basket: chips, cookies, fruit, Kind bar &packets of: Advil, Aleve, Bayer, Tylenol, Alka Seltzer— and a can of oxygen.
BREAKING: @Columbia "incorporates" IHRA definition of antisemitism, appoints Title VI and VII coordinators, and announces partnerships with ADL, Project Shema, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, and Kalaniyot. They will also no longer meet with CUAD. Nice gestures -- I support…
In our age when we see beauty, food and ourselves through the lens of a camera, some wisdom from photographer Dorothea Lange: "The camera is an instrument to teach people how to see without a camera."