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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,…
Intergenerational Divergence: A Story of Unchanging Change
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. –…
How Family Has Stretched and Changed Throughout the Ages
Meet Oswald Spengler (1880-1936). Oswald, or Ozzie for short, was a German historian and philosopher of history who gained great renown for…
Daniel Grama & Aliza Grama: A Child in Recovery
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Daniel Grama—rabbi of Westside Shul and Valley Torah High School—and…
What Generational Differences Mean to Me
My father is quite different religiously than his father was. Growing up in the 1950s in North Adams, MA, even those families…
Suffering, Purim, and the Grogger
Consider: Why do we use a grogger? In a world in which it sometimes feels like everything makes just a bit too…