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Jewish Community as Home
Can you love Judaism, but not Jews? Can one be a member of the Jewish community while living outside the institutions that…
Laura E. Adkins: Is There Room for All Opinions?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Laura E. Adkins, the JTA’s opinion editor and an adjunct professor…
Two Jews, Three Opinions? Sounds Like Heteroglossia
What opinions in the Jewish conversation are valid? Who gets a voice? Laura E. Adkins is the opinions editor for the Jewish Telegraph…
‘Out of the Wonder We Came’: Reflections on Jewish Peoplehood
Who are the Jewish people? In this week’s Weekend Reader, we look to some of the great Jewish thinkers from past…
Rav Aaron Lopiansky: What Tribes do you Contain Inside?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rav Aaron Lopiansky, Rosh HaYeshiva of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington,…
What Tribes Do You Contain Inside?
How can one person love a whole nation? And how can the love for a nation be a textured love, an appreciation…
What Jewish Peoplehood Means to Me
The first memory I have of being conscious of being Jewish was on vacation with my family when I was about five…
What Is Jewish Peoplehood, and Why Should We Care?
What is Jewish peoplehood? In a world that is increasingly international in its scope, our appreciation for the national or the tribal is…
Reflections Four Months After Launch
18Forty was designed as a forum where significant issues and struggles are engaged directly with depth in order to share a meaningful…
The Dance of Torah: Closing Thoughts on Biblical Criticism
The relationship between question and answer is more complicated than we think. We often think of the question as the pretext for…
Biblical Criticism Conclusion
As we confront the questions that Biblical criticism has presented, we must ask ourselves how we can keep that transcendent, atemporal view…
Gil Student: Where are the Lines?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Gil Student, an infamous blogger who writes for Torah Musings, to…