Rachelle Fraenkel: ‘I had expectations from humanity’
Rachelle answers 18 questions on Israel, including her religious views, religiosity in Israel, and Messianism.
Gadi Taub: ‘We should annex the north third of the Gaza Strip’
Gadi answers 18 questions on Israel, including judicial reform, Gaza’s future, and the Palestinian Authority.
Efraim Inbar: ‘Israel doesn’t use enough force’
Efraim answers 18 questions on Israel, including the Iranian threat, Gaza’s future, and Israel’s use of force.
On Loss: Defending Israel on Oct. 7
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we speak to the Perez family, whose son Daniel, Hashem yikkom damo, was murdered defending Israel and the Jewish People on October 7.
Ronit Heyd: ‘If Israel becomes less democratic, it will become less Jewish’
Ronit Heyd answers 18 questions on Israel, including democracy, religion, and the future of the Jewish state.
Yehoshua Pfeffer: ‘The army is not ready for real Haredi participation’
Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer answers 18 questions on Israel, including the Haredi draft, Israel as a religious state, Messianism, and so much more.
Anita Shapira: ‘You cannot wipe out Hamas’
Leading Israel historian Anita Shapira answers 18 questions on Israel, including destroying Hamas, the crisis up North, and Israel’s future.
David Horovitz: ‘We need this state to survive’
Times of Israel Editor-in-Chief David Horovitz answers 18 questions on Israel, including Western media, Gaza after the war, Israel’s future, and so much more.
Chava Green: What Is Chabad’s Feminist Vision?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Chava Green—an emerging scholar who wrote her doctoral dissertation on “the Hasidic face of feminism”—about how the Lubavitcher Rebbe infused American sensibilities with mystical sensitivities, paying particular attention to the role of women.
Eli Rubin: Is the Rebbe the Messiah?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Eli Rubin—a scholar, Lubavitcher Hasid, and author of the forthcoming book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism—about life’s big cosmic questions.