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CLAL PRESIDENT BRAD HIRSCHFIELD JOINS BELIEFNET.COM WITH DAILY BLOG
WINDOWS & DOORS: New Online Site Where Politics and Pop
Culture Meet 3,000 Years of Jewish Wisdom
By Judy Epstein
Scheduled for June 25, CLAL President Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
will begin a new daily blog on Beliefnet.com, the net’s largest online site
for spirituality and inspiration. Called WINDOWS & DOORS, the blog
will provide an ongoing conversation about how the traditions and wisdoms we
most value connect with the biggest questions in our lives and world.
Described as a living laboratory where ideas and practices that
can better our lives will be explored and tested against the daily chaos of
modern life, WINDOWS & DOORS will examine how faith can overcome fear
and lead to genuine spiritual openness. Informed by Jewish wisdom but
accessible to anyone, the blog will re-frame the issues, delivering new
insights for thoughtful debate.
“In a world with more and more walls going up among people,
nations, and religious communities, we need more windows and doors, and this
can be one of them,” said Rabbi Hirschfield.
Begun in 1999, Beliefnet.com now receives over three million
unique visitors each month. Its weekly Jewish e-newsletter, which will
feature WINDOWS & DOORS, goes to more than 80,000 subscribers a day.
“Brad Hirschfield is the rare writer who combines deep, original
insight with an engaging, entertaining writing style, and in seeing the
inherent worth--the godliness--of people on all sides of complex, divisive
issues, he adds a needed voice to public debates about politics, current
events, and culture,” said Michael Kress, Managing Editor for Beliefnet.
Rabbi Hirschfield, who also blogs for the Washington
Post/Newsweek – On Faith online column, and is the author of You
Don’t Have to be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism,
promises readers WINDOWS & DOORS will go beyond simple divides like
right and left, or traditional and liberal, to find the connection between
faith and current affairs; tradition and pluralism. Check www.beliefnet.com
for WINDOWS & DOORS.
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