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A new way of exploring life, religion, and Jewish thought.
Each month:
💡 A new topic
🎥 Short video
🎙 Podcast interviews
📄 Readings
📚Book recommendations
Explore more at .
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Thank you for standing with the people for whom everything is easy or impossible
@JerrySeinfeld
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These words, between father and son, broke our hearts open ❤️🔥❤️🩹❤️🔥
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Mizrahi Book Store has about 500,000 books. But trust Israel, he really is selective.
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In our conversation with Rachel Goldberg-Polin,
@DBashIdeas
shared a Pesach idea on Carpas.
Listen to Rachel share what it means for their Seder
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Meet Michael and Beth.
Their friend’s son is held hostage in Gaza while their own son joins the IDF in fighting against Hamas.
Today, they joined tens of thousands in
#MarchForIsrael
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Meet the Penners 👨👦
Menachem Penner (father) is a rabbi, leader, and the dean of RIETS. Gedalia Robinson (son) is a singer, cantor, and a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
We talked about love, family, and navigating difference -together.
Start here:
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Meet the Weinbergers 👨👦
R. Moshe Weinberger is the rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh and an important spiritual leader in the Jewish world. Asher Weinberger is the co-founder and COO of Swimply, a marketplace for renting swimming pools.
Start here:
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🎙️
@JudahMischel
: Having relationships with people who have deeply different religious practices than you should not be a novelty.
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This week, we sat down with Mirlana Morris.
Mirlana lost her son, Donny, in the Meiron tragedy when he was 19 years old. Mirlana speaks with us about Donny, loss, and faith, and how she perpetuates the legacy of her beloved son.
Start here:
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What should we read to our children?
🎥 Here are 5 Jewish books that every kid needs to read:
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In honor of the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, we reflect on his legacy.
We spoke with Prof. Jonathan Haidt about the enduring legacy of Rabbi Sacks in religious thought, and how this legacy can help us live better, more moral lives.
Start here:
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The collab you didn't know you needed, but now you do
Big, juicy, Jewish ideas 🤝 Chabad Chassidus
@Oshibloom
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This week, we spoke with Sara and Avi Schwartz about the kindness and love surrounding the life of their daughter, Yakira Leeba Schwartz A”H.
We were also honored to speak with Shelley and Ruvan Cohen about Nathaniel Cohen A”H.
Listen now:
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Israel Mizrahi discovered Hitler-owned Nazi blueprints that hinted at a North American Holocaust.
Now, it’s in Canada’s national archive.
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Have you ever seen Maimonides' handwriting?
Dr. David Kraemer walks us through an original manuscript of the Rambam, one of the greatest figures in Jewish history.
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We reached one million podcast downloads 🎉
Thank you to all of our listeners, guests, and muses who've brought us here.
We can't wait to reach 10 million with you next year 💓
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Did you know that the Jewish Daily Forward used to regularly publish a 'Gallery of Missing Husbands'?
Read on to learn about the Agunah crisis of the early 20th century, the National Desertion Bureau, and more 🧵
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Heartbreaking news.
We spoke with Daniel’s father Doron earlier this year.
May the entire family find comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
So incredibly sad to hear the terrible news that Daniel Perez, son of Rav Doron and Shelley, was killed by Hamas terrorists. Daniel HY”D was serving in the IDF on Oct. 7th and has been missing since then.
תהא נפשו צרורה בצרור החיים
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A Jewish educator writes: "The trauma of teaching is not the classroom or the parents. It’s that with my salary, I can barely pay my bills."
Read this honest, anonymous account now.
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R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the rabbi of the Warsaw Ghetto, wondered why the time for repentance, Teshuva, is Rosh Hashanah.
Here are his thoughts: "Teshuva ... is also a kind of creativity..."
Read his beautiful words, from the year 1941, in the Warsaw Ghetto, now.
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Meet the Gramas 👪
Rabbi Daniel Grama is the rabbi of Westside Shul, and his daughter Aliza is a former Bais Yaakov student and recovered addict.
We sat down to talk about navigating family and love through difference.
Listen & learn here:
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Rav Tzadok of Lublin on History and Halacha 🧵
The writings of R. Tzadok of Lublin are both fascinating and cryptic, and his thoughts on the history of rabbinic Judaism are no different.
Here's where to start, guided by R. Dr. Yaakov Elman.
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Meet the Yabloner Rebbe: The man who left religious life, only to return to his roots in the end.
We speak to R' Pini Dunner and R' Moshe Weinberger about the winding paths of faith and return of the rebbe of change.
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Thank you to our listeners, readers, contributors, guests, and entire community for pushing us to grow alongside you!
We are deeply proud to be a part of this big wacky family of thoughtful, curious, and engaged lifelong learners ❤️🔥
Let's keep growing together 🥂
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Thought we’d miss the
@seforimsale
? Think again.
New content coming to you soon.
@ShabbosReads
, your move.
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Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
In honor of this great man, we turn back to our conversation with Prof. Jonathan Haidt about the legacy of Rabbi Sacks, and how it can help us live more moral lives.
Start here:
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Meet the Looksteins 👪
R. Haskel Lookstein is Rabbi Emeritus of Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. R. Joshua Lookstein is the Associate Head of School at the Ramaz School.
This father and son joined us to talk about family, legacies, and interegenerational divergence.
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Are you serious about comedy?
Come to the first-ever live 18Forty event, as we sit down with Modi to talk about Judaism, comedy, and life.
Sign up here:
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If you needed a reason to cry, watch Holocaust survivors and their descendants sing about the eternal Jewish resilience.
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱❤️
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🆕 New topic 🆕
This month, we are discussing abuse in our community.
Our first guest is Aharon Schrieber, ADA in the Domestic Violence Bureau of the Bronx County DA's Office, where he prosecutes domestic violence offenses between partners.
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One mother's touching words, from Rabbi Robyn Frisch 💔❤️💔
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🎙️Yossi Klein Halevi in Conversation 🎙️
This week, we spoke with
@YKleinHalevi
, author and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, about what it means to be a Zionist and a Jew post-October 7.
Start here:
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📣 New podcast: Rav Moshe Weinberger 📣
Rav Moshe Weinberger, rabbi, rebbe and thinker, joins us to talk about faith, mysticism, and the community.
Here's what you need to know:
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What is the gift of Shabbos?
This week, we sit down with senator Joe Lieberman to talk about what he learned about Shabbos in the highest halls of the government. His thoughtful words hit home for all of us seeking rest in a restless world.
Start here:
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Who was R. Froman?
In our first 18Forty Profile, we bring you our favorite reads on a figure worth knowing.
Learn about this rabbi, thinker, and activist with help from Josh Rosenfeld, Shaul Magid, and Yehuda Fogel.
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🎙️Can rabbis have fun?🎙️
This story about the Chazon Ish was included in the notorious "Making of a Gadol." Please don't cancel us 🫣
Watch the full interview here:
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New at 18Forty: Book Journeys 📚
Join along in reading three books in three months, guided by a thinker, with weekly discussion boards and monthly live sessions led by the thinker leading each topic.
The first topic: Jewish law and state.
Start here:
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"We Are Not a Crisis: Changing the Singlehood Narrative"
After years of unsolicited advice, one guest writer now share some in return, about changing the narrative around being single.
Start here:
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🆕 The Origins of Judaism 🆕
What was Judaism like at the beginning?
We'll be speaking with Lawrence Schiffman, Tova Ganzel, Yonatan Adler, Yosef Bronstein, Malka Simkovich, and an anonymous guest, as we explore the origins of Judaism.
Start here:
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Prepare yourselves: New topic dropping tomorrow.
Here's your hint.
Guesses welcome.
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18Forty is all about moving toward our problems, confronting them, facing them, and working through them—no matter the difficulty or the fear.
We were honored to receive Shalom Task Force’s Community Changemaker Award last week.
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There are many faces to Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook’s canon, and it can be hard to know where and how to read the works of this great thinker.
Here's a travel guide.
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🚨New topic: Mysticism🚨
Does modernity need mysticism? Joey Rosenfeld, Ora Wiskind, and Rav Moshe Weinberger will join us to talk about the many doorways to mysticism.
📽️Video
📜Essays
🎙️Podcasts
📘Recommended reading
Start the journey here:
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When Jews rally, we bring signs—good signs.
Here are our favorites.
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What does wealth mean to David Bashevkin?
In his latest essay, David talks Gvir Culture, mimetic desire, and his thoughts on how financial pressures are shaping the Jewish community of today.
🚀 Start here:
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Thank you to all of our listeners for joining us on this journey together.
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Pesach.
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📣New Podcast: Bethany S. Mandel📣
In our new podcast, we sit down with Bethany S. Mandel, journalist and grandma-killer, to talk about religious change, living in and out of the Jewish community, and Judaism at home.
Here's what you need to know:
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📣 New podcast: Joey Rosenfeld 📣
In our first podcast on mysticism, we sit down with Joey Rosenfeld, teacher and therapist, to talk about his path to mysticism, and how mysticism speaks to a world in desperate need of healing.
Here's what to know:
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These Israeli children survived Hamas' terrorist attack on Oct. 7.
Listen to their stories.
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"God is telling us: 'I, alone, cannot eliminate evil from the world and still allow you to be human."
—
@rabbisacks
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Michelle Chesner reveals the REAL reason the Gemara begins with Daf Bet.
Learn More:
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Enter to win one of 5 copies of Rabbi Dr. Michael Rosensweig’s newest book, a deep exploration of teshuva, Elul, and Yom Kippur.
1️⃣ Follow
@18_forty
,
@shabbosreads
, and
@korenpublishers
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2️⃣ Retweet this tweet.
3️⃣ Check back on September 3 when we reveal the winners!
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"I don't think I could be a senator and not observe Shabbat."
— Sen. Joe Lieberman A"H
Listen to the full episode here:
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🆕 New Topic: Change 🆕
This month is Elul, a month of introspection and growth. We are honoring Elul by thinking about the process of change.
First up is Rav Judah Mischel, author and teacher, to talk about the process of progress.
Start here:
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How can we reimagine higher education?
This week, we spoke with three people invested in Jews in higher education: R. David Wolpe, visiting scholar at HDS, Talia Khan, PhD student at MIT, and Steven Pinker, professor at Harvard.
Start here:
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Come for the headlines. Stay for the love. ❤️❤️
"Once I got over the fact that it wasn’t about winning and losing in each encounter, but about, what’s the best way for us to remain a family? What’s the best way to continue to have our relationship? It changed."
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🎙️ Read Rabbi Daniel Grama's touching reflection on the two lessons he learned as a parent of a struggling child 💔
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"Halfway through my first year of college, I was homesick for a place I’d never been."
In his latest essay,
@fourthson29
reflects on how his relationship with R. Dov Singer helped him learn how to dance in every moment.
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🎙️ Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik🎙️
In our first conversation on Halacha, we sat down with Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Professor of Jewish History and pioneer in the study of Jewish law, to discuss his famous work Rupture and Reconstruction.
Start here:
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New podcast: Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
How can we cultivate a healthy relationship with Halacha? This week, we sit down with Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz, pulpit rabbi and director of semicha at RIETS, to discuss life, rabbinics, and healthy Halacha.
Start here:
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Simi Peters: The surrender to teaching Jewish texts in translation is a catastrophic educational mistake. We can’t afford to make any more excuses.
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Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook:
"When fear of heaven isn't connected with the light of Torah, fear of thought can replace fear of sin. And when a person begins to fear thinking, they get stuck in the mud of ignorance, which takes the soul's light and weakens one's spirit."
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Meet the Rothwachs family 👨👧
Larry Rothwachs (father) is the rabbi of Beth Aaron in Teaneck, NJ, and the Director of Professional Rabbinics at RIETS. Tzipora Rothwachs (daughter) works as a property associate for JLL.
This is their story.
Start here:
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Top 10 Podcasts of 2022 🥳
In 2022, we released 41 podcasts. Each was special in its own way, and we're so grateful for the guests and listeners that honored us with their attention, openness, and honesty.
10 of these podcasts hit home especially hard for our listeners.
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Happy birthday to us 🥂
It has been one year since 18Forty launched, in what has been a journey of thought, laughter, and growth together.
This is only the beginning, and we hope to keep growing together 💕
Join us in celebration here:
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"How can I say I’m not proud of my son? He did what we teach our children to do, help those in need. And he did the best he could." ❤️🩹
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📢 New podcast: Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz 📢
How should we educate about Social Justice? We sit down with Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz, educator and thinker, to talk about how Social Justice in Jewish education.
✈️ Journey starts here:
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Why did R. Yechezkel Taub, the Hasidic rebbe of Yablon, leave Israel, his community, and everyone he knew, to move to LA and start a new life?
And after it all, what brought him home?
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When olim complete their immigration forms, Nefesh B'Nefesh requests they submit an essay of their 'aliyah story.' There are tens of thousands of such essays to date—unpublished and unseen by the public eye.
Now, we are proud to spotlight seven of them.
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Why Was This Talmud Censored?
In our latest trip to the hall of treasures that is the JTS library, we found out.
Watch more here:
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R. Tamir Granot, Rosh Yeshivat Orot Shaul, recently recently to comments made by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef about Haredim drafting to the army, in a video that went viral in Israel.
Here's his plea, in translation by
@Adderabbi
.
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📚 New Topic: Books, Books, Books 📚
This month, we're thinking about books.
We talked to the three major Jewish publishers, Michelle Margolis, and R. Emmanuel Feldman, as we think about books from cover to cover and everything in between.
Start here:
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Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772 - 1810), enigmatically commented that his "Torah is entirely introductions."
Members of our listening community may appreciate why we so strongly identify with these 6 words.
🙃
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Channah Cohen spent months interviewing single, Jewish adults, and found that the way we think about, and deal with, singlehood in the Jewish community needs to change.
Here's how.
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🎙️ Debbie Stone in Conversation 🎙️
This week, we spoke with Dr. Debbie Stone, Associate Head for Judaics at the Jewish Leadership Academy and author of the Koren NCSY Siddur, about learning, and teaching, prayer.
Start here:
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🎙️ Antonio García Martínez🎙️
We sat down with Antonio, tech entrepreneur and best-selling author. Tune in to hear about his "Why Judaism?" essays, his decision to convert to Judaism, and from someone whose life was changed by these essays.
Start here:
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18Forty favorites: R. Emanuel Feldman 🫰
R. Feldman is the author of 11 books, and past editor-in-chief of Tradition Magazine, with humorous and sharp writing.
We put together our four favorite essays of his for your enjoyment.
Full article here:
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Over the past three months,
@Malka_Simkovich
led a book journey through the topic of antisemitism, or anti-Judaism in its pre-Modern expression.
Here’s the 7 essential features of anti-Judaism that she uncovered.
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🆕 New topic: Zionism 🆕
This month, we're exploring Zionism. We’ll be talking with Noam Weissman, Elli Fischer, Lahav Harkov, and Yehoshua Fass, as we explore what it means to live in a world with a Jewish state today, from near and far.
Start here:
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In our first episode on Jewish Peoplehood, we sit down with Rav Aaron Lopiansky, Rosh HaYeshiva of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, to talk about the challenges facing American Orthodoxy, life-long education, and value education.
Listen and read now:
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🎙️ Kayla Haber-Goldstein in Conversation 🎙️
This week, we sat down with Kayla Haber-Goldstein, interior designer and author, to speak about her journey through faith. Born to a rabbinic family, Kayla lived the questions of religion deeply.
Start here:
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🎙️ R. Yitzchak Breitowitz in Conversation 🎙️
In our latest episode, we speak with Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz, Rav of Kehillos Ohr Somayach and a major contemporary thinker, about the key Jewish issues of our time and how we can navigate them.
Start here:
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🎙️ New podcast: Mark Trencher 🎙️
In our first conversation on wealth, we sat down with Mark Trencher, founder of Nishma Research, to discuss the cost of frum life, and the pressure points where finances and religion meet.
Start here:
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Modi: Live with 18Forty
In honor of Purim, we’re releasing the live recording of our event with the one and only Modi.
Tune in now for laughs, tears, and everything in between:
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What happens when one changes in public?
This week, we talk to Alex Clare, award-winning singer-songwriter, about change and the public eye. Listen to Alex's deeply moving thoughts now.
Start here:
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Meet Liel Leibovitz and Lisa Ann Sandell 👩❤️👨
In this episode, we talk to Liel and Lisa Ann about what happens when one partner wants to increase their observance. Listen now to hear how they learned to move in different directions, together.
Start here:
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"How to Change Ourselves and Our Lives"
In her 18Forty interview, University of Chicago Professor
@AgnesCallard
breaks down the nature of change and how to become who we want to be.
Read on to make this Elul different:
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🎙️ R. Yisroel Kaminetsky in Conversation 🎙️
In our first episode on Jewish education, we talk to Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, founding principal of the DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys, about the state of Jewish education in America.
Start here:
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🆕 From Mao to Moses: The Life of Benny Lévy 🆕
How did the last student of Jean-Paul Sartre become a religious Jew? In the latest installment of the 18Forty Profiles, we explore the life and thought of Benny Lévy.
Link:
Full PDF:
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🎙️ Bezalel Naor in conversation 🎙️
In our latest episode, we sat down with Bezalel Naor,, author, translator, and expert on Rav Kook, to talk about Rav Kook, the soul, and the Land of Israel.
Start here:
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