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What the 18Forty Team is Reading This Month
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
The Bonds and Betrayals of Brotherhood: From Yosef to the Hasmoneans
This piece first ran on our Substack, Reading Jewish History in the Parsha. We’re pleased to share it here on our website. …
How Did Chanukah Become a Jewish Holiday?
Chanukah, which commemorates the victory of Judean Jews over Syrian Greeks in the Hellenistic era, is different from other Jewish holidays. When…
5 Things Yosef’s Brothers Teach Us About Jealousy in the Age of Comparison
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
Alon Shalev: How Rav Hutner Found Existential Meaning
Shalev, Author of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner’s Theology of Meaning, talks existentialism, individualism, and more.
The Book That’s Also a Rebbe
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
What Does It Mean to Limp Toward the Promised Land?
This piece first ran on our Substack, Reading Jewish History in the Parsha. We’re pleased to share it here on our website. …
5 Things Vayishlach Teaches About Faith After the Holocaust
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
Joey Rosenfeld: ‘All Jews are by definition mystics’
Rav Joey Rosenfeld’s entryway into mystical thought began with the writings of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus.
How My Favorite Book Brought Me Closer to My Family This Thanksgiving
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
Of Maariv and Menorahs
This piece first ran on our Substack, Reading Jewish History in the Parsha. We’re pleased to share it here on our website.…
