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Rabbi Emeritus, Gerald I. WolpeRabbi Gerald I. Wolpe is Rabbi Emeritus of Har Zion Temple. A native of Boston, he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1953 where he also received a doctorate of divinity. He served as a Chaplain in the Second Marine Division and pulpit rabbi in Charleston, SC and Harrisburg, PA before coming to Har Zion in 1969. Well known within religious and academic circles as an expert in bioethics, caregiving and medical education, Rabbi Wolpe served as director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1997 to 2002. From 1996 to July 1999 he served as chairman of the advisory committee of the Bioethics Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is a senior fellow at the center. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Aphasia Society, the Advisory Committee of the Families and Health Care Project of the United Hospital Fund and is a resource expert in Jewish Bioethics for the "Ask the Rabbi" website of America Online. His chapter "A Crisis of Caregiving, A Crisis of Faith," appeared in the book, Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families Into Caregivers, published in October 2000. His previous academic positions include lecturer on bioethics and health legislation at Yale University, Clinical Assistant Professor at Hahnemann Medical College/Medical College of Pennsylvania and lecturer on professional education at the Thomas Jefferson University. Rabbi Wolpe's service to the Philadelphia community has included membership on the Boards of Directors of the Federation of Jewish Agencies and Akiba Academy and he is a past President of the Board of Rabbis of the Greater Delaware Valley. He also served as Chairman of the Journalistic Standards Committee for The Jewish Exponent. Rabbi Wolpe and his wife, Elaine, have four married sons and eight grandchildren. |
