Our Team

Listed for many years in Newsweek as one of America’s “50 Most Influential Rabbis,” and recognized as one of our nation’s leading “Preachers & Teachers,” by Beliefnet.com, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield serves as the President of Clal – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, which has lead the way in building bridges of understanding and mutual learning for more than 40 years. 

Brad is also the founder of the Stand and See Fellowship, which brings together many areas of his life’s work, including academic training in the texts of Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, inter-religious engagement for national and international leaders, life in Israel, and a passionate commitment to nurturing religious pluralism at home in the US, in the Middle East and around the world.  He is an ordained Orthodox rabbi, who holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Rabbi Hirschfield has taught and lectured in numerous seminaries – both Jewish and Christian, served as a commentator for media ranging from Fox News to the Washington Post, and is the author or editor of multiple works including, You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism (Harmony, 2008). He conceived and hosted two groundbreaking series for Bridges TV—American Muslim TV Network, Building Bridges: Abrahamic Perspectives on the World Today (three seasons), and American Pilgrimage. Rabbi Hirschfield also serves as the Executive Editor of The Wisdom Daily.

Rabbi Hirschfield’s work has brought him around the world, addressing audiences from the Aspen Institute and the Washington National Cathedral, to the Islamic Society of North America and many leading universities and religious institutions. A featured speaker at The Parliament of the World’s Religions in both Barcelona and Melbourne, he has also represented NGOs as well as the Government of the United States in meetings on the future of religion and religious leadership, in places including Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Cairo, The United Nations and the Republic of Indonesia, among others.

Jill Harman, MA, is the Associate Director of the Magis Catholic Teacher Corps at Creighton University, where she also teaches in the Department of Education. A restorative justice practitioner and ordained minister, Jill brings over a decade of ministry experience and has facilitated restorative work in schools, churches, and nonprofits. Her research explores the mentorship experiences of female clergy in the United Methodist Church. She is a 2024–2026 Sinai and Synapses Fellow and is passionate about faith, formation, and the common good.

Herbie is a pastor and teacher with a passion for building bridges in our society. Through his teaching, writing, and organizing, Herbie brings together diverse communities that seek to promote the common good in America and abroad. His professional interest in bridge building crystallized while he was earning his PhD in Historical Theology at The University of Dayton. There, his research in history and cultural studies introduced him to several overlooked narratives of interreligious collaboration in America’s past. Herbie is currently completing a manuscript for Bloomsbury Publishing about one of these stories from the nineteenth century and what it might teach us today. He is the pastor of MorningStar Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC, and has an MDiv from Emmanuel Christian Seminary and a BA from Kentucky Christian University. A 2022 Stand and See Fellow, Herbie is inspired by CLAL’s vision to build bridges in our divided world.