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Eli Rubin: How Do Mysticism and Social Action Intersect
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Eli Rubin – writer and researcher at chabad.org – to think…
Social Justice: Thoughts From Our Community
In Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ To Heal a Fractured World, the late and great Rabbi Sacks shared a deeply moving teaching about the…
How Should We Educate About Social Justice?
Does Orthodox Judaism have a privilege problem? This is the question that Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz has outspokenly been raising for the…
Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz: How Should We Educate About Social Justice?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz – Shalom Hartman Institute Fellow, SAR Associate…
Jewish Social Justice Throughout the Ages
Like every timeline we have put together, the history of Jews and social justice is by no means a simple history. Given…
Is There a Torah Approach to our Social Responsibility?
On December 17, 2014, a rosh yeshiva stood at the podium of Yeshiva University’s Glueck Beit Midrash, and urged the usually cloistered…
Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: Is There a Torah Approach to our Social Responsibility?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Jeremy Wieder – rosh yeshiva, PhD, Bible professor, and passionate…
What Social Justice Means to Me
I grew up in a relatively sheltered community in Long Island, NY. I don’t have any regrets about being raised there—I very…
Suffering, Social Justice, and the Jewish Response
In 1883, the American author Henry James (1843-1916) received a distressing letter from Grace Norton, a fellow writer and friend who was…
Talmud, Science, and Rabbi Meir Triebitz
Our latest guest to speak about science and religion was Rabbi Meir Triebitz. A seasoned lecturer, thinker, and Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Triebitz…
How Should We Approach the Science of the Torah?
The ancient sage Ben Bag Bag grew famous for a controversial dictum he would say (Avot 5:22): “Turn it and turn it…
Rabbi Meir Triebitz: How Should We Approach the Science of the Torah?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Meir Triebitz – Rosh Yeshiva, PhD, and expert on matters…