America’s Top 50 Rabbis for 2012

Mazel Tov

How did we come up with this year’s list? That’s not one of the Four Questions! But Abigail Pogrebin, Gary Ginsberg, and Michael Lynton will tell you anyway.

Abigail Pogrebin

Gary Ginsberg

Michael Lynton

1. David Wolpe (Conservative)

2. Yehuda Krinsky (Orthodox)

3. Peter J. Rubinstein (Reform)

4. David Saperstein (Reform)

5. Sharon Brous (Conservative)

Kim Silverstein

6. Robert Wexler (Conservative)

7. Richard Jacobs (Reform)

Ben Fink Shapiro

8. Marvin Hier & Abraham Cooper (Orthodox)

9. David Ellenson (Reform)

10. Steven Leder (Reform)

11. Avi Weiss (Modern Orthodox)

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12. Hershel Schachter (Orthodox)

13. Rolando Matalon (Conservative)

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14. Arthur Green (Jewish Renewal)

15. Dan Ehrenkrantz (Reconstructionist)

16. Shmuel Goldin (Orthodox)

17. Burton Visotzky (Conservative)

18. Sharon Kleinbaum (Reconstructionist)

19. Irwin Kula (Conservative)

20. David Stern (Reform)

21. Shmuel Kamenetsky (Haredi)

22. Julie Schonfeld (Conservative)

23. Naomi Levy (Conservative)

24. Asher Lopatin (Modern Orthodox)

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25. Jonah Pesner (Reform)

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26. Haskel Lookstein (Orthodox)

27. Arthur Schneier (Orthodox)

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28. Joy Levitt (Reconstructionist)

29. Angela Buchdahl (Reform)

30. Shmuley Boteach (Orthodox)

31. Kerry Olitzky (Reform)

32. Sara Hurwitz (Modern Orthodox)

33. Hadar Stars: Shai Held, Ethan Tucker, Elie Kaunfer (Independent)

34. Marcia Zimmerman (Reform)

35. Marc Schneier (Orthodox)

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36. Elliot Cosgrove (Conservative)

37. Elka Abrahamson (Reform)

38. Steve Gutow (Reconstructionist)

Karol DuClos

39. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Renewal)

40. Shmuly Yanklowitz (Modern Orthodox)

41. Andy Bachman (Reform)

Len Small

42. Dov Linzer (Modern Orthodox)

43. Sharon Cohen Anisfeld (Reconstructionist)

44. Steven Greenberg (Modern Orthodox)

45. Jill Jacobs (Conservative)

46. Micah Greenstein (Reform)

47. Laura Geller (Reform)

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48. Rachel Cowan (Reform)

49. Jacqueline Koch Ellenson (Reform)

50. David Ingber (Jewish Renewal)

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