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Should Judaism Be Orthodox, Post-Denominational, or Something Else?
This is the eighth essay of 18Forty’s new “Faith in Reason” series with Rabbi Steven Gotlib, released every month. Sign up for…
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.
Chabad’s Mission Is Not Much Different Than Centrist Orthodoxy’s
In 11th grade, my high school arranged a special two-part lecture series on the “big Jewish questions” with a well-known speaker; among…
Three Weeks To Mourn the Kibbutzim of Slaughter
After witnessing the aftermath of the Kishinev Pogrom in 1903, Hayyim Bialik wrote his famous poem, “The City of Slaughter,” about The…
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…
His Ladder Will Take You to the Zohar
Meet Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (1885 – 1954). Rav Ashlag, known also as the Baal HaSulam after his most well-known work—a…
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…
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…
Yosef Bronstein: Only for Chabad? Modern Orthodoxy and the Rebbe
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Yosef Bronstein—a rabbi, writer, and scholar—about the philosophy of Chabad and the…
How the Lubavitcher Rebbe Teaches Us to Transcend Ourselves
The word “Rebbe” means teacher. And though Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is often hailed as a great leader of the Jewish people,…
Rabbi YY Jacobson: How Did the Rebbe Revolutionize Judaism?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to renowned Chabad speaker Rabbi YY Jacobson about Chassidus, Chabad, and the Lubavitcher…