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A Call to Read More Fiction
I once read an essay in which the author said that “letters can express experience, numbers express objective truth.” You’ll have to…
On Shabbos, I Get To Be a Child Again
I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a writer who didn’t describe a childhood love of—even an obsession with—reading. I’m no exception.…
Why I Read on Shabbos: A Manifesto
For more on I Read This Over Shabbos, visit our site page, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. I read over Shabbos. Here’s why:…
Yisroel Besser: How to Share Jewish Stories
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Yisroel Besser, who authored many rabbinic biographies and brought David Bashevkin to…
Dara Horn: On Jewish Fiction and Non-Jewish Fiction
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Sarah Hurwitz and Alex Edelman: On Introducing Judaism
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to returning guest comedian Alex Edelman, whose show has made it to Broadway,…
Josh Foer: How Can You Make a Digital Library for All?
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‘So, Come—Let’s Dance!’: How Rav Dov Singer Led Me into Life
“When I heard that the Rav was coming, I was so excited, I almost wanted to dance.” Halfway through my first year…
The White Fire Burns: A Talk on Education that Begins from Within
This essay was originally published in Hebrew in Karov Elekha: Avodat Hashem b’Ruach Hasidit 282, Menachem Av, 1999. A glossary of Hebrew…
Toward a Jewish Theology of Consciousness
The mystery of consciousness has long vexed philosophers and scientists alike. Attempting to explain the conscious experience has proven to be quite…
We Live in a World of Words and Letters
Excerpted and adapted from Birth of the Spoken Word, by Dovid’l Weinberg. March 2020. Reprinted with permission. Receive a 20% discount when…
What Prayer Means to Me
Becoming Friends with Prayer When I was in first grade, I received my first siddur. Like many my age, it was the…