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Protecting Us From Ourselves: An Anonymous Perspective on Divorce
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to an anonymous divorced man who gives us his perspective on the divorce…
Our Top Three Takeaways On the Agunot Crisis
1. A get is not, and should never be, a bargaining chip. Get refusal is abuse. Yup. Basically what it sounds like…
18Forty in Review: Birthday Edition
One year ago today, 18Forty revealed itself to the world, in a flash of dark colors and provocative tweets. ‘What is 18Forty,…
The Learned and the Lived: An Agunah Timeline
If a society is only as strong as its most vulnerable population, then perhaps a legal system is only as strong as…
What the Agunah Crisis Means to Me
It’s no secret I spend too much time on social media. It’s a fascinating but sometimes harrowing world. I’ve developed real friendships,…
Bari Mitzmann: Social Media and Agunah Advocacy
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Bari Mitzmann – Instagram content creator and host of the Women of…
Keshet Starr: How Should We Advocate for Agunot?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Keshet Starr – CEO of ORA – about what it’s like to…
Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann: The Rabbinic Will and Agunot
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Shlomo Weissman – head of Beth Din of America, YU Professor,…
Imperfect Perfection: Intergenerational Divergence In Retrospect
This past month, we spoke with families whose love was challenged by—and enlarged by—intergenerational divergence. Simply put: Families who faced change and…
Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Andrew Solomon – a Pulitzer Prize finalist – about intergenerational divergence, as…
This Pesach, We Honor Our Disordered Love
You can download a PDF of all four articles in this Pesach Reader here. For many people, and even more lecturers, the…
Menachem Penner & Gedalia Robinson: A Child’s Orientation
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Menachem Penner—dean of RIETS at Yeshiva University—and his son Gedalia—a musician,…