Brad HirschfieldBrad Hirschfield

Brad Hirschfield is the co-founder and co-executive editor of The Wisdom Daily. A rabbi, Brad has been featured on ABC's Nightline UpClose, PBS's Frontline, Fox News and National Public Radio. He wrote a long-standing column, "For God's Sake," for the Washington Post, and has also written for The Huffington Post and Beliefnet.com. He authored the book, You Don?t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism. Brad also serves as President of Clal, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a leadership training institute, think tank and resource center in New York City.

VIDEO: Do People Have A Right to Die?

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This week Canadians are considering physicians-assisted suicide legislation that would allow those suffering from a “serious and incurable illness” to end their lives. This is problematic for Brad, who says we should focus instead on how we can “ease people’s suffering as much as possible as often as possible.”

VIDEO: Are “Religious Freedom Laws” Actually Hate Laws?

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A number of states in the U.S., most recently North Carolina and Mississippi, have passed laws that protect religious freedom. But what are the motives behind these laws? According to Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, true religious freedom comes only when all religions are protected, and that means protecting your own interests, but also the interests of others.

VIDEO: Moving Forward After Brussels

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Monday’s attacks in Brussels left at least 31 dead and hundreds wounded. The rhetoric from politicians and presidential candidates, some fanning the flames of Islamophobia and some addressing only the law enforcement and intelligence aspect of the issue, seem to miss the point.

If we are to fight a war against violent extremism, we must do so in a way “that does not allow us to be dragged down into the wholesale hatred that our enemies practice.”

WATCH: In this Election Season, Words Matter

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In this week’s Faith On the Record, Brad highlights the verbal inflation that has occurred in the media, where the Black Lives Matters movement has been held up as equal to the Ku Klux Klan and Erin Andrews’s stalker has been labeled a terrorist.

“Words matter,” he reminds us, “According to Scripture, the world is called into being with words and I hope as we enter an election season that gets crazier and crazier, that we can resist the temptation towards this kind of verbal inflation.”