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Mark Wildes: Is Modern Orthodox Outreach the Way Forward?
We speak with Mark Wildes, founder and director of Manhattan Jewish Experience, about Modern Orthodox outreach.
David Bashevkin: ‘We are meant to teach the world how to embrace unchosen identity’
David Bashevkin discusses how to embrace holiness, the purpose of prayer, and the search for meaning in an age of distraction.
The Bibliophile Who Reshaped American Jewry
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
How Archaeology Rewrote the History of Tefillin
This piece first ran on our Substack, Reading Jewish History in the Parsha. We’re pleased to share it here on our website. …
A Reform Rabbi Interviews an Orthodox Rabbi | Dovid Bashevkin & Diana Fersko (Part 2)
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David Bashevkin answers questions from Diana Fersko, senior rabbi of the Village Temple Reform synagogue,…
5 Ways to Transmit Tradition to a Skeptical Generation
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
This Might Be What Saves Us from AI
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
Shani Taragin: ‘It’s good that Judaism is hard’
Rabbanit Shani Taragin answers 18 questions on Jewish mysticism, including free will, prayer, and catharsis.
How God Taught a Broken People to Hope Again
This piece first ran on our Substack, Reading Jewish History in the Parsha. We’re pleased to share it here on our website. …
How Rav Kook and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Saw the Jewish People
[A traveler] said to me [Elijah the prophet]: “My teacher, there are two things in my heart that I love with a…
5 Ways a Heart Hardens: When Choice Becomes Destiny
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
Dovid Bashevkin: A Reform Rabbi Interviews an Orthodox Rabbi [Denominations 2/2]
David Bashevkin answers questions from Diana Fersko about denominations and Jewish Peoplehood.