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Kula on Understanding Letterman and Our Inner Self October 14, 2009 "Why such overwhelming obsession with the David Letterman affair? To best understand this Late Night saga, we turned to Top Jew Rabbi Irwin Kula, author, media commentator and expert in Sacred Messiness and Partial Truths...." More... By Mark Pearlman of Jinsider from The Jewish Week |  |
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Hirschfield on The Dennis Miller Show: Obama’s Nobel, and Israeli Security October 13, 2009 Brad Hirschfield and Dennis Miller discuss Obama’s Nobel peace prize, Iran, Israel and the U.S.. Listen... The Dennis Miller Show, 10/13/09 |  |
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Hirschfield on Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize October 12, 2009 The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama is both a mockery and a lesson in peace and hope. More... WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio |  |
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Hirschfield on the Nobel to Obama October 9, 2009 The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama makes a mockery of the prize. More... The Lars Larson Show |  |
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Could Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize have a greater purpose? October 9, 2009 "[Brad Hirschfield] suggested it also could serve a greater purpose. ‘A brighter possibility is that they gave him the award for being the first black president of the United States and for the healing that that accomplishment represents,’ Hirschfield said. ‘But if that is the case, the award should go to the American public. It’s about his presidency, not his accomplishments.’..." More... From The Seeker: A Personal and Professional Quest for Truth By Manya Brachear from the Chicago Tribune |  |
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Words of Bonds with Janet Kirchheimer October 15, 2009 Bringing together Holocaust survivors and descendants of slaves, on Sunday, Oct. 18, 6 p.m. at Madison Square Garden’s MSG Theater, Words of Bonds will hold a documentary screening and tribute dinner at which Ms. Kirchheimer will speak. More... From Clal |  |
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Speaking of Hitler: Politicians on All Sides Behaving Badly October 14, 2009 "We seem to have endless appetite for comparisons to Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust, and like all forms of gluttony, it’s making us very sick. It’s neither a Democratic thing nor a Republican thing, it’s a simply and disturbingly a tragic fact of contemporary American life...." More... From Brad Hirschfield’s blog in the Washington Post-Newsweek’s "On Faith" Column |  |
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The Arrest of Roman Polanski October 1, 2009 Rabbi Kula talks with Jon Grayson about the arrest of Roman Polanski, Hollywood’s response, and the profound disconnect between Hollywood and the rest of America. Kula says that to suggest Polanski receive a lesser punishment because he is a Holocaust survivor is an abuse of biography. Listen... From "Overnight America with Jon Grayson," (KMOX, St. Louis) |  |
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Hollywood’s view of the Polanski Arrest September 30, 2009 Rabbi Kula discusses the social ramifications of the Polanski news with Paul Stern and Jack Roberts. Listen... From "The Erik & Jack Attack!" on Cable Radio Network |  |
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Rabbis in Recession September 30, 2009 "...the economy can only help accelerate the kind of change already envisioned by ... Rabbis Without Borders, founded this spring to encourage and train rabbis to offer Jewish leadership and insight to a broader cross-section of the public. ‘Rabbis Without Borders was founded because it was clear even before the recession that rabbis needed to change and grow in order to respond to the postmodern world,’ said Rabbi Rebecca W. Sirbu, its director. ‘Jews are not found only in synagogues; in fact many Jews never enter a synagogue or Jewish institution. No matter what the economic situation is rabbis need to be more creative in how we teach the meaning of Jewish wisdom.’..." More... By Lynn Harris from Tablet Magazine |  |
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Rituals of Yom Kippur with Rabbi Kula September 25, 2009 The central ritual on Yom Kippur, besides prayer itself, that’s most well-known, is fasting. What fasting does is it says I’m not going to concentrate on my physical body right now. I’m going to concentrate on a different kind of food. Rather than nutrients for my body, I’m going to concentrate on the nutrients for my spirit, and my heart, and my ethical way. ... View interview... From Religion & Ethics Newsweekly |  |
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Opening Doors On Yom Kippur September 24, 2009 "Yom Kippur is ultimately a joyous day, promising forgiveness, atonement and reconciliation for all who seek it. But in classically Jewish fashion, the attainment of such things hinges on genuinely confronting and addressing our deepest fears, angers and hurts. Yom Kippur, as one of my nephews remarked when I explained this to him, is not for ‘wusses.’..." More... By Brad Hirschfield, Special to The Jewish Week |  |
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Apology Porn September 25, 2009 "...Our attraction to ‘apology porn,’ these big, public mea culpas and confessions of sins that are so very none of our business, are an indication of our collective need both to be forgiven and to offer forgiveness for wrongs in our own lives that we’d rather not think about ... Rabbi [Kula] says....." More... By Cathleen Falsani from The Chicago Sun Times |  |
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Spare Us The Empty Apologies; We’re Not The Ones Hurt September 20, 2009 "With Yom Kippur—the day of atonement, prayer, and fasting—arriving next week, maybe this is a good time to examine public atonements (or apologies, which, says Kula, ‘are not for the public’). In fact, when South Carolina Gov. Sanford cried over his infidelity in front of microphones in June, he should have been crying in front of the person he hurt most, his wife, Kula said...." More... By Susan Campbell from The Hartford Courant |  |
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A New Fetish: Apology Voyeurism September 18, 2009 "The slew of public apologies over the past week or so from Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, and Kanye West along with the apologies during the past year from Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford—each offered with different degrees of sincerity and histrionics—have turned us into apology voyeurs...." More... By Irwin Kula from The HuffingtonPost.com |  |
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Speaking of Hitler: Politicians on All Sides Behaving Badly
October 14, 2009 "We seem to have endless appetite for comparisons to Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust, and like all forms of gluttony, it’s making us very sick. It’s neither a Democratic thing nor a Republican thing, it’s a simply and disturbingly a tragic fact of contemporary American life...." More... By Brad Hirschfield from Beliefnet.com’s Windows & Doors |  |
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Clal Selects Inaugural Class
for Its Ground-Breaking Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship Program June 5, 2009 "Rabbis Without Borders (RWB), CLAL’s new initiative to help rabbis make Jewish wisdom accessible to the wider American public, selected its first group of fellows for its competitive rabbinic fellowship program...." More... By Judy Epstein from CLAL For more about RWB and Fellows around the country: New Jersey Jewish Standard... Detroit Jewish News... The Jewish Daily Forward Washington Jewish Week Metro West New Jersey Jewish News New Mexico Jewish Link South Florida Sun-Sentinel St. Louis Jewish Light St. Louis Dispatch Santa Fe New Mexican |
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American Pilgrimage with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield June 24, 2009 Aired on Bridges TV—American Muslim TV Network, the series provides an in-depth look at the issues dividing people of faith. In these episodes, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield speaks with various Imams from around the country. In this latest episode, Rabbi Hirschfield speaks with Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, who is the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. View American Pilgrimage episode 12... |
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Hirschfield and Kula: Intelligent Talk Radio Teen Violence and Bullying, and Women and Sexuality October 14 2009 Listen to Brad and Irwin as they discuss how we can teach our daughters real empowerment so that they can avoid bullying? And it turns out women and men are more similar with sex than many of us believed.... Be sure to check the website each week for more riffing with the rabbis on topics of the day. Listen .... From Hirschfieldandkula.com, broadcast on KXL, Portland, OR |
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You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right
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Remember for Life: Holocaust Survivors’ Stories of Faith and Hope
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How to Spot One of Us
A Collection of Poetry
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Building Bridges: Abrahamic Perspectives on the World Today
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