Brad Hirschfield has a history of stirring provocative thought. An acclaimed thinker, speaker, rabbi, and commentator on religion, society and pop culture, he offers a unique perspective on the American spiritual landscape and on political and social trends to audience nationwide.

Hirschfield is the Co-President of CLAL–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a leadership training institute, think tank and resource center. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading Preachers and Teachers by Beliefnet.com, the Web’s most popular religion website, he conceived and is featured in a landmark 18-part interfaith series entitled Building Bridges: Abrahamic Perspectives on the World Today, airing on Bridges Television (American Muslim TV) in 2006-2007. The series, reaching more than 2 million viewers, addresses the divisiveness amongst the traditions.

A speaker at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music and Colloquium in Morocco and the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona, he was featured in the acclaimed film, Freaks Like Me, where he explores our fear of the “other.” He is presently co-producing a film on religious fanaticism in America entitled The Fierce Believers.