‘Out of the Wonder We Came’: Reflections on Jewish Peoplehood
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‘It’s Not Great’: What’s the Deal With Jewish Education?
Jewish education rests at the epicenter of our communal infrastructure. In that vein,…
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‘All I Saw Was Cult’: When Children Find Faith
The following two articles—”A Baal Teshuva’s Father’s Perspectives” and “A Baal Teshuva’s Father’s…
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3 Songs To Listen to During Israel’s War
These are three songs written during times of conflict in Israel that I’ve found myself turning to again and again.
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3 Arguments for God’s Existence
Perhaps the most fundamental question any religious believer can ask is: “Does God exist?” It’s time we find good answers.
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A (Talmud) Page is Worth a Thousand Worlds
Beyond the words of the page, the Talmud teaches just as much Jewish history as it does Jewish law, revealing new insights into our intergenerational past.
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A Brief History of Jewish Mysticism
To talk about the history of Jewish mysticism is in many ways to talk about the history of the mystical community.
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A Brief History of Rationality, from the Biblical Age to Now
In today’s world, we sometimes see the rational as the enemy of the religious, but history shows a far more complex picture.
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Yitzchok Adlerstein: Zionism, the American Yeshiva World, and Reaching Beyond…
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we launch our new topic, Outreach, by talking to Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, a senior staff member at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, about changing people’s minds, the value of individuality, and the “no true Scotsman” fallacy.
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Yitzchok Adlerstein: Zionism, the American Yeshiva World, and Reaching Beyond Our Community
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we launch our new topic,…
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Frieda Vizel: How the World Misunderstands Hasidic Jewry
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Frieda Vizel—a…
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Ari Lamm: Teaching Non-Jews To Love the Bible
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Dr.…
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Lizzy Savetsky: Becoming a Jewish Influencer and Israel Advocate
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Lizzy Savetsky,…
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Ken Brodkin: A Shul Becomes Orthodox
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Ken…
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Eitan Hersh: Can the Jewish Left Talk With the Jewish Right?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Eitan Hersh,…
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error
In Being Wrong, Schulz explores what it means to be wrong, and why humans are so insistent on being right about everything. Schulz, a writer with the lucidity of a long-time journalist, argues that we learn to celebrate errors, and that we stop fearing being wrong in life.
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Nine and a Half Mystics
In this cult classic of American Jewish writing, a Reform rabbi visits 9 (and a half) mystics, and learns about their way of life. Guided by curiosity, Weiner offers a rare look at storied legends of Jewish mysticism, asking them the questions that only an outsider to a community can ask, and demonstrating the value in the process of crossing the lines that sometimes keep communities apart.
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The Promise
The follow-up to Potok’s more famous The Chosen, in The Promise he explores the lines between communities with more depth. This novel offers a singular view of what happens when one leaves one religious community, whether it is Modern Orthodoxy, Conservative Judaism, or Hasidic Judaism, and how religious identity and communal identity are interwoven through and through.