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2 I January 17,2008
TEXAS JEWISH POST $ SINCE 1947
JCRC to hold two important events next week
A UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF BELIEF AND ACCEPTANCE
Orthodox rabbi, Brad Hirschfield, to speak at interfaith event Jan. 23
By Harriet P. Gross
A lot of Jews might consider Brad
Hirschfield a study in contrasts.
His boyhood home was non-tra-
ditional, but he found and adopted
Orthod oxy himself as a young teen.
He became a rabbi, but one who has
little patience with rabbis who want
others to become more like them;
his desire is for people to become
more of themselves, whatever that
might be.
Rabbi Hirschfield's beliefs were
fueled early on by his parents and
grandparents, and are aptly ex-
pressed in the title of his new book,
"You Don't Have to Be Wrong for
Me to Be Right: Finding Faith
Without Fanaticism." In it, he ap-
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plies those beliefs to our current,
troubling global situations. He'll
be speaking and answering ques-
tions about his provocative mes-
sage next Wednesday evening on
the campus of Southern Method-
ist University, Dallas.
Now president of CLAL, the
New York-based National Jewish
Center for Learning and leader-
ship, Hirschfield is a major force in
American interfaith efforts, such
as his 18-part broadcast series,
"Building Bridges: Abrahamic
Perspectives on the World Today."
With a light touch, his new book
scores universal points through
easy-reading, illustrative personal
stories. Hirschfield calls the non-
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Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
belief of his immigrant grandma
an expression of Judaism: "Her
faith in herself and her husband
and the future they would have to-
gether in a distant land was part of
the deepest rhythms of their tradi-
tion — to go and find a better life
for themselves and their family."
And "My mother did not know
any Orthodox Jews," he says, "un-
til her 12-year-old son wanted to
keep kosher." When he asked for
his own pots and pans and dishes,
"She could easily have run scream-
ing from the house...." But instead,
she kashered the kitchen so that
the family could continue eating
the same foods together. This ac-
ceptance enabled Hirschfield to
continue going out to restaurants
with the family, watching them eat
and enjoy traif foods without an-
ger or censure.
Simple analogies illustrate
his views. "My home has many
rooms," he says. "I'm far more
comfortable in my bedroom or the
kitchen than in the basement or
my 13-year-old daughter's room.
But I know that without them all, it
wouldn't be my home. And so it is
with our world. We need everyone.
All our faiths. All our differences."
He maintains that world unity will
come from diversity rather than
uniformity.
Throughout the book,
Hirschfield broadens those fam-
ily lessons, extending the personal
toward the universal. His father
taught him that "you love people
not only because of certain things,
but despite certain things," he
says. "Real people have real dis-
agreements.... We don't love each
other less because of them. The
Bible teaches us that this is the way
it has always been between men
and women, and between human
beings generally."
see HIRSCHFIELD, p28
Rev. Dr. Sheron C. Patterson
Shearith to remember MLK with interfaith breakfast Jan. 21
By Deb Silverthorn
Community. It's what Martin
Luther King, Jr. fought and died
for, and community will come
together on Monday, Jan. 21, to
celebrate him with an interfaith
breakfast program at Congrega-
tion Shearith Israel beginning at
7:45 a.m. The program, co-host-
ed by the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater
Dallas, Congregation Shearith
Israel and Highland Hills
United Methodist Church, is
free and open to the commu-
nity.
"We, as Jews, who believe
in tzelem Elokim, the image
of G-d, share the message of
Martin Luther King and his
vision of freedom. He was a
most positive force and we
must celebrate that," said
Shearith Israel's Rabbi Wil-
liam Gershon who, with Rev.
Dr. Sheron C. Patterson, se-
nior pastor, Highland Hills
United Methodist Church,
will participate in a discussion
entitled "Reverend Martin Lu-
ther King, Jr., Rabbi Abraham
Joshua Heschel, Darfur: How
Do We Make 'Never Again' A
Reality?"
"Martin Luther King es-
poused the ideals, morals
and ethics we adhere to," said
Marlene Gorin, director of the
Jewish Community Relations
Council of Greater Dallas, who
hopes the program will be-
come an annual event. "Many
Jewish community leaders in-
cluding Rabbi Heschel helped
Reverend King during the civil
rights movement. His values
are our values."
Just four days (and 22 years)
separate the anniversaries of
the birthdays of Martin Luther
King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham
Joshua Heschel, once called
"two prophets, one soul" by
Los Angeles-based Rabbi Har-
old M. Schulweis. "Two men
from different geographies,
color, creed, theological back-
ground were joined in a spiri-
tual kinship whose legacy ad-
dresses our own times," Rabbi
Schulweis said. "The calendri-
cal coincidence of their birth
anniversaries calls upon us to
resurrect the moral passion
and wisdom that infused their
lives."
"I'm so excited to bring our
Rabbi William Gershon
communities together and to
be part of this occasion, to
discuss the devastation that
is happening in Darfur and
what we can do to end it," Dr.
Patterson said. "We as Afri-
can Americans and Jews know
about suffering and pain. This
is a union of our communi-
ties, joining so that the world
hears us."
"We said 'Never Again' af-
ter the Shoah (Holocaust); we
said 'Never Again' after the
fights of those who marched
and fought with Martin Lu-
ther King," Gorin said. "The
desolation in Darfur is hap-
pening now and today. When
will we stop the suffering?
When will we stop saying
'Never Again'?"
"When I marched in Selma,
my feet were praying," said
Rabbi Heschel, called "one of
the great men of our time" by
Coretta Scott King. "Equality
is a good thing ... what is lack-
ing is a sense of the monstros-
ity of inequality."
For more information, contact Tracey Bruce,
JCRC associate, at 214-615-5261 or tbruce@
jfgd.org.
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