As Passover commences, The Daily Beast and Newsweek teamed up with a squad of Judaism mavens to determine, for the fifth year in a row, the top leaders of America’s Jewish clergy.
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1. Yehuda Krinsky
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2. David Wolpe
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3. David Saperstein
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4. Peter Rubinstein
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5. Marvin Hier
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6. Robert Wexler
7. Rick Jacobs
Ben Fink Shapiro
8. Steven Leder
9. David Ellenson
10. Sharon Brous
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11. Shmuley Boteach
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12. Avi Weiss
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13. Rolando Matalon
14. Hershel Schachter
15. Joseph Telushkin
16. Dan Ehrenkrantz
17. Art Green
18. Yehiel Eckstein
19. Naomi Levy
20. Irwin Kula
21. Asher Lopatin
22. David Stern
23. Burton Visotzky
24. Sharon Kleinbaum
25. Jonah Pesner
26. Arthur Schneier
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27. Joy Levitt
28. Abraham Cooper
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29. Julie Schonfeld
30. Haskel Lookstein
31.Gordon Tucker
32. Sara Hurwitz
33. Kerry Olitzky
34. Stephen Pearce
35. Jack Moline
36. Elka Abrahamson
37. Yehuda Berg
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38. Angela Buchdahl
39. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
40, The Stars of Hadar: Elie Kaunfer, Shai Held & Ethan Tucker