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      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

      Updated Jul. 13, 2017 1:47PM ET / Published Apr. 02, 2012 4:45AM ET 

      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)

      Richard

      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)

      Union for Reform Judaism

      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)

      Bill Aron

      48. Rachel Cowan (Reform)

      49. Jacqueline Koch Ellenson (Reform)

      50. David Ingber (Jewish Renewal)

      Michael Meysarosh

      Abigail Pogrebin

      Gary Ginsberg

      Michael Lynton

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