Our Vision: A New Way to Remember

BEHOLD, a performance film, will feature Holocaust poetry read and performed by well-known actors, musicians, and poets. Though Holocaust films abound, whether documentary, fiction, or non-fiction, the intersection of poetry and film is an un-mined, powerful vehicle to present a new way to remember, and keep us vigilant. There has never been a Holocaust film like BEHOLD.

"...We are heirs to a heritage that intentionally and consciously cloaks, clouds and shrouds in an attempt to press us into a mode of searching and seeking. And once we enter this modality of intense examination, we come to realize that the absolute and definitive truths that we so often crave are neither available nor desirable..."

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Tupelo Press ran the Winter 2012 edition of the Poetry Project. Janet R. Kirchheimer’s was awarded honorable mention for her poem "Errata."

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From The Tupelo Press

"I wanted to thank Rabbi Brad Hirschfield for writing such a lovely article explaining the spirit of the seder (“Guess Who’s Coming To Seder?” March 30)..."

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By Randi Michaels Block Special to the Jewish Week, 5/8/12

"...Kula himself supports gay marriage and supports the president in publicly stating his position. "The president went through the personal journey that is a religious and spiritual journey that millions of Americans are on," he said. "That is, to come to understand that people who are different, people who are other, are actually deserving of equal rights."

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Rabbi Irwin Kula joins Fox News LIVE’s Lauren Green along with Warren Smith from Worldmag.com and Merry Miller to discuss why one faith is seeing growth.

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Fox News.com Live, 5/11/12

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield responds to questions on topics of the day. Today: With the country almost equally divided about gay marriage — 46% favoring it and 44% opposing it — it’s a topic which always gets a great deal of attention. When the President of the United States changes his position on this very sensitive topic, it’s a big deal.

"How could it not be? That doesn’t mean that it’s also not Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Pagan, Buddhist, etc. It’s not a zero sum thing, as it rarely is in these things. But that is for another time...."

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By Brad Hirschfield in the Jewish Ledger, Connecticut Edition

"...Maurice Sendak appreciated that life was good -- mostly, but not always. He knew that life was about joy, but not always joyous. Maurice Sendak knew that life was beautiful, but could also be quite ugly..."

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From Brad Hirschfield’s blog on The Huffington Post

On Welcoming Orthodox Synagogues
Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to speak to young gay and lesbian people. I often ask them to dream with me about their futures. What sort of Jewish lives were sufficiently possible to hope for or to make happen? What did they need in order to make a traditional Jewish life possible for themselves?