Janet Kirchheimer was interviewed by Mike Sherwin:"What about poetry resonated with you so strongly? ‘I love the sharpness of it. I love the fact that you can use few words to say so much — how what’s on the page matters and how what’s not on the page matters.’..."

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By Mike Sherwin from St.LouisJewishLightOnline

Russ Morley and Rabbi Brad Hirschfield discuss the Academy Awards and our national obsession with celebrities.

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From The Morning Show on WFTL, Miami, FL

"Mosab Yousef says that he ‘crossed all the red lines in (his) society’. While that may be true, the real story of this son of Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, who spent years spying for Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, is far more complex...."

"Pamphlets being handed out in some parts of Virginia tell women and girls, ‘even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly’. If that isn’t sufficiently obnoxious, the pamphlet goes on to tell them ‘Scripture tells us that... some rape victims would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. So can we really say they were innocent victims?’..."

"...Rabbi Kula wrote ‘Inglorious Basterds is far more than a Holocaust film or a WWII spaghetti western – all names that simply domesticate and tame the destabilizing and terribly unnerving truth of the film: that we human beings, however good we think we are, have within us the diabolical capacity with intention and justification to...’"

Rabbi Irwin Kula was interviewed on The Strategy Room’s "God Talk", a web news show dedicated to exploring the ties between religion and morality with every day news.

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Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room, "God Talk"

"The story here is the dangerous devaluation of a real and ugly phenomenon i.e. anti–Semitism. Equally distressing, is the fact that Foxman, one of the nation’s leaders in the fight against anti–Semitism, also leads the process of its devaluation...."

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By Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, The Atlantic

"...According to a Twitter feed from the Jewish Council on Public Affairs’ national meeting being held in Dallas, ADL head Abe Foxman lashed out at journalist and blogger Andrew Sullivan, calling him a good example of an educated anti-Semite...."

"Apparently, Abe Foxman called Andrew Sullivan an anti-Semite in his remarks to the Jewish Council on Public Affairs' national meeting..."

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From Windows & Doors, Brad Hirschfield’s daily blog on Beliefnet

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, characterized as a self–confessed "radical pluralist" is interviewed by Rachael Kohn at the Parliament of the World’s Religions.

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From ABC Radio National–Australia, The Spirit of Things, aired 12/21/2010