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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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