David Wolpe, 59, is the senior rabbi at Sinai Temple, a large and prominent Conservative congregation in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. In an opinion piece published earlier this year in the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Wolpe explained why he doesn’t bring politics onto the pulpit.
He wrote: “All we hear all day long is politics. Can we not come to shul for something different, something deeper? I want to know what my rabbi thinks of Jacob and Rachel, not of Pence and Pelosi. Don’t tie your Torah to this week’s headlines. We are better, bigger and deeper than that.”
Rabbi Wolpe’s article engendered considerable pushback, including from other rabbis. Their responses are linked at the end of his piece, as is Wolpe’s answer to the criticism.
Source: Jewsish Journal
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