Named The Most Influential Rabbi in America  by  Newsweek  and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World  by The Jerusalem Post, and twice named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles by 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.

Join Rabbi David Wolpe as he shares his impressions about the changing landscape of Jewish identity as seen in changing models of synagogue membership, Jewish organizational affiliation, and the impact that the war between Israel and Hamas has on it all.

Stay afterwards for a Q&A session and reception with Rabbi Wolpe. 

The lecture will be available to live stream. On the day of the event, a link will be sent to all registrants to the email you provide upon making your reservation.