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Fast Forward Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee over president’s ‘painfully inadequate testimony’ on campus antisemitism
Wolpe, who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, has built a reputation as one of the country’s most prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers
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News ‘I understand the hurt’ Stephen Jackson tells Rabbi David Wolpe
In a live-streamed conversation with prominent Conservative leader Rabbi David Wolpe, activist and basketball player Stephen Jackson walked back some of his inflammatory comments and asserted his love for Jewish people. He vowed to speak out against antisemitic rhetoric when he encounters it in the future. The conversation, which was viewed live on Instagram by…
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News Rabbi David Wolpe Says It’s ‘Shame’ Haskel Lookstein Backed Out of Republican Convention
Influential Los Angeles rabbi David Wolpe called Rabbi Haskel Lookstein’s decision against giving the invocation at the Republican National Convention “a shame” in a Time Magazine opinion piece. Wolpe, who gave the invocation at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, said that a prayer is a blessing that does not — and should not — constitute…
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Opinion Forgive Us for Clicking on Sam Horowitz’s Bar Mitzvah Drama
Ashamnu, bagadnu, gazalnu, dibarnu dofi. The words of the Vidui are familiar to most Jews as being part of the Yom Kippur collective confessional. When we recite the Vidui, we all stand — as congregants, as people, as Jews — and confess to sins. These sins to which we confess are ones that we ourselves…
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Breaking News Rabbi Apologizes to Bar Mitzvah Boy Sam Horowitz for Slam
Rabbi David Wolpe has retracted elements of his previous screed against Sam Horowitz’s lavish bar mitzvah—but has stood by its substance. In a piece published in the Washington Post, Wolpe copped to penning his previous piece in a “white heat,” the type of anger that might cause a well-respected rabbi to “appear to insult a…
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Opinion Sam Horowitz, Bar Mitzvah Role Model
The short clip of Sam Horowitz’s burlesque show-themed bar mitzvah celebration received significant criticism last week. Rabbi David Wolpe, writing in the Washington Post, called it “egregious, licentious … awful” and “a travesty.” Debra Nussbaum Cohen wrote that Wolpe “forcefully and gracefully articulated what many of us were thinking.” We should be commending this young…
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Life Sam’s Crazy Bar Mitzvah Draws Rabbi Rebuke
Who in America with a Facebook account hasn’t seen this D-cup of craziness? It’s Sam Horowitz’s big fat bar mitzvah dance number, replete with dancing girls clad in golden sequined mini-dresses shaking everything their mamas gave them to the Christina Aguilera song “Show Me How You Burlesque.” In front of 15-foot-high letters spelling out Sam’s…
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