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Sivan Rahav-Meir: ‘When it comes to terrorism, you can’t compromise
Religious journalist Sivan Rahav-Meir answers 18 questions on Israel, including Israelis’ search for meaning, peace prospects, the war, and so much more.
If America Cares About Democracy, It Will Stand by Israel
Independence Day is an opportunity to honor the miracle of American democracy, and to reaffirm its crucial significance. The message of July…
Does Revelation Satisfy the ‘Why Be Jewish’ Question?
This is the seventh essay of 18Forty’s new “Faith in Reason” series with Rabbi Steven Gotlib, released every month. Sign up for…
Ammiel Hirsch: How To Understand Reform Judaism’s Anti-Zionist Crisis
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we follow up with Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch to break down the anti-Zionist crisis facing the…
Yakov Nagen: ‘Jewish Messianism is a vision for all of humanity’
Interfaith activist Rabbi Yakov Nagen answers 18 questions on Israel, including Jewish-Musim relations, Messianism, peace, and so much more.
Benny Morris Has Thoughts on Israel, the War, and Our Future
Anyone who has studied Israeli history with any degree of seriousness should know the name “Benny Morris.” Once a left-winger who ushered…
Benny Morris: ‘We should have taken Rafah at the start’
Leading Israeli historian Benny Morris answers 18 questions on Israel, including Gaza, Palestinian-Israeli peace prospects, morality, and so much more.
Discovering Orthodoxy, Halacha, and Myself
“Jews are moon people,” my friend said as we strolled through Gainesville’s verdant swamp one Autumn night. She was not lecturing me…
Could Judaism Survive Israel?
In 1976, Tradition published a controversial essay exploring what would happen to Judaism if, God Forbid, the State of Israel ceased to exist. They…
I Always Felt Religiously Homeless Growing Up—Until I Came to Israel
Shabbos afternoons in my childhood home were accompanied by tea and sprinkled cookies—“tea parties,” my mom called them, instead of “Shabbos parties.”…
My Jewish identity began as a crisis—It’s become so much more today
When I was about nine, my Israeli uncle, a secular but principled man, visited my family in Arizona for a couple of…
What Jewish Denominations Mean to Me
Here’s a question: Why do you affiliate Jewishly the way that you do? I sometimes pose this question to my students or…