Rabbi Brad Hirschfield on Racist Chants and Free Speech

13 Mar 2015

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield on Racist Chants and Free Speech

This week the University of Oklahoma expelled two students and shut down the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after a video showed them chanting and making racist slurs. Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of Clal and co-founder and executive editor of TheWisdomDaily.com wonders if “we’re on a collision course between protecting free speech… and responding to the very real issues of race that still exist in this society.”