This week Rabbi Brad Hirschfield was the keynote speaker at Lomed, an annual conference sponsored by the Board of Jewish Education and UJA Federation of New York for 37 congregations including rabbis, educators, and lay leaders from the New York area. The conference brought together 200 participants for this interdenominational initiative.

"...Perhaps, [Rabbi Brad] Hirschfield says, doing the personal work can help us to ‘reset the clock politically, economically, corporately and culturally.’..."

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By Rabbi Anne Brener from JewishJournal.com

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield responds to the heated debate surrounding Park51. "If you're more animated by the date September 11, 2001, you're probably going to be opposed to [the Park51 project]. If you're more animated by July 4, 1776, you're probably going to be in favor of it."

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By Rick Carrol from The Aspen Times, 8/30/10

Rabbi Irwin Kula looks at Islamophobia with hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Said Rabbi Kula, "What we have to be on the lookout for is not the bigots and the racists. See that we always know, there's always a strand of that in the culture. It's the good people, the decent people who begin to say all billion and six Muslims are dangerous. Or the stuff, 'they're going to take over.' Those kinds of tropes are what we have to be on the lookout for."

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield discusses the controversy surrounding the mosque near Ground Zero with Mario Solis Marich.

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The Mario Solis Marich Show, Progressive Talk AM 760, KKZN, Denver, 8/23/10

Also spoke on this topic on Aaron in the Afternoon, on KLFD, St. Cloud, Minn.,8/13/10

Rabbi Irwin Kula was a guest on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, discussing the mosque and the anger it has generated in the country. He pointed out that the issue is really a container for a much larger anger permeating the country, and that it goes way beyond the mosque. (Video not available)

From "Anderson Cooper 360" CNN, 8/23/10

"...Rabbi Irwin Kula of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York...say[s] that ‘the distinction between the right to build and the
wisdom to build is a very, very, very dangerous distinction.’..."

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By Haroon Siddiqui, opinion, from Toronto Star, 8/22/10

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield speaks to KMOX host Jon Grayson about the growing debate over the Mosque/Cultural Center in lower Manhattan.

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From "Overnight America with Jon Grayson," (KMOX, St. Louis)

Rabbi Hirschfield was also on the "Russ Morley Show" on WFTL, FL, 8/23/10 (not available)

Rabbi Irwin Kula joins host Lauren Green and other panelists to look at the controversy over the building of the Mosque near Ground Zero.

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"I wish it were as surprising as it is disturbing that nearly 20% of Americans now believe President Obama is a Muslim, but it’s not. Nor is it simply possible to explain the situation by asserting that that many Americans are kooks or idiots for believing it to be true, even though it is certainly not. So what is going on?..."

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By Brad Hirschfield from FoxNews.com’s Fox Forum, Opinion