18Forty Podcast

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Episodes: 181

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Helping you find meaning in life through the exploration of Jewish thought and ideas.

Episode Date
Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A Hostage’s Mother Fighting for His Freedom
Apr 20, 2024
A Haredi Mother Sending Her Children To Serve [Divergence 4/5]
Apr 16, 2024
Finding a Home for Haredi IDF Soldiers [Divergence 3/5]
Apr 09, 2024
Haskel and Josh Lookstein: Finding Your Path in a Rabbinic Dynasty [Divergence 2/5]
Apr 02, 2024
Rachel Yehuda: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing [Divergence 1/5]
Mar 26, 2024
Yael Muskat and Martin Galla: Entering Adulthood: Inside a College Counseling Center
Mar 19, 2024
Regine Galanti: Childhood: Addressing Children’s Mental Health [Mental Health 5/6]
Mar 12, 2024
Yoni Rosensweig: How Does Mental Health Affect Halacha? [Mental Health 4/6]
Mar 05, 2024
Elie Schulman: Does Therapy Work? A Patient’s Journey [Mental Health 3/6]
Feb 27, 2024
Yakov Danishefsky: Religion and Mental Health: God and Us [Mental Health 2/6]
Feb 20, 2024
David Bashevkin: My Mental Health Journey [Mental Health 1/6]
Feb 13, 2024
Listener Feedback: Israel at War
Feb 06, 2024
Lipa Schmeltzer: How to Heal: A Personal Journey of Mental Health
Jan 23, 2024
Reuven and Shani Taragin: What’s Next: The Future of Religious Zionism
Jan 16, 2024
What’s Next: Higher Education for Jews: David Wolpe, Talia Khan, and Steven Pinker
Jan 09, 2024
Jonathan Gribetz: What’s Next: Teaching the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Jan 02, 2024
Yossi Klein Halevi: What’s Next: The Future of Liberal Zionism
Dec 26, 2023
Before We Say Goodbye to 2023
Dec 21, 2023
Eli Paley: What’s Next: The Future of Israel’s Haredi Community
Dec 19, 2023
Michael Eisenberg: What’s Next: The Civic Revolution in Israel
Dec 12, 2023
Noa Lewis: How Can We Help Israel? Finding Our Purpose
Dec 05, 2023
The Opportunity and Difficulty of Unity: On the Israel March
Nov 28, 2023
Doron Perez: Our Heart: One Child Married, One Child Missing
Nov 21, 2023
Yosef Zvi Rimon: What Happens To Jewish Law During War?
Nov 14, 2023
What Is Happening With Jewish Students and Antisemitism?
Nov 07, 2023
Daniel Statman: Can War Be Moral? On Moral Philosophy and War
Oct 31, 2023
The Trauma of War: Mental Health Professionals in Israel
Oct 24, 2023
Voices from Israel
Oct 17, 2023
Reading Jewish History in the Parsha
Oct 11, 2023
Pray for Israel
Oct 09, 2023
Estrangement and Reconciliation: Teshuva for Our Relationships [Teshuva 5/5]
Sep 19, 2023
Rabbi Michael Rosensweig: The Majesty of Torah Study [Teshuva 4/5]
Sep 12, 2023
Infidelity: Consequences and Aftermath [Teshuva 3/5]
Sep 05, 2023
Martha Minow: When Law Should Forgive: On the Limitations of Teshuva [Teshuva 2/5]
Aug 29, 2023
Rav Daniel Kalish: The Song of Teshuva [Teshuva 1/5]
Aug 22, 2023
'Everything About Her Was Worth It': The Life of Yakira Leeba Schwartz A"H
Jul 25, 2023
Yisroel Besser: How To Share Jewish Stories [Books II 4/4]
Jul 18, 2023
Dara Horn: On Jewish Fiction and Non-Jewish Fiction [Books II 3/4]
Jul 11, 2023
Sarah Hurwitz and Alex Edelman: On Introducing Judaism [Books II 2/4]
Jul 04, 2023
Josh Foer: How Can You Make a Digital Library for All? [Books II 1/4]
Jun 27, 2023
Dov Singer: Living a Prayerful Life [Prayer & Humanity 5/5]
Jun 20, 2023
Debbie Stone: Can Prayer Be Taught? [Prayer & Humanity 4/5]
Jun 13, 2023
Moshe Koppel: Artificial Intelligence and Torah [Prayer & Humanity 3/5]
Jun 05, 2023
Dovid'l Weinberg: The Song of Prayer [Prayer & Humanity 2/5]
May 29, 2023
Samuel Lebens: The Hard Problem of Prayer [Prayer & Humanity 1/5]
May 23, 2023
The How and Why of Moving to Israel [Zionism 4/4]
May 15, 2023
Elli Fischer: Can Israel Follow Jewish Law? [Zionism 3/4]
May 08, 2023
Bezalel Naor: Rav Kook's Mystical Vision of Zionism [Zionism: Bonus Episode!]
May 01, 2023
Lahav Harkov: How to Read Media About Israel [Zionism 2/4]
Apr 25, 2023
Noam Weissman: How to Unpack Israel's Story [Zionism 1/4]
Apr 18, 2023
When A Child Intermarries
Mar 28, 2023
Liel Leibovitz and Lisa Ann Sandell: When A Spouse Finds Faith
Mar 21, 2023
Aliza and Ephraim Bulow: When A Spouse Loses Faith
Mar 14, 2023
Modi Rosenfeld: A Serious Conversation About Comedy
Mar 04, 2023
The Cost of Jewish Education [Jewish Education 4/4]
Feb 28, 2023
Leslie Ginsparg Klein: The Culture of Jewish Education [Jewish Education 3/4]
Feb 21, 2023
Michael A. Helfand: Church, State, and Jewish Education [Jewish Education 2/4]
Feb 14, 2023
Yisroel Kaminetsky: The Goal of Jewish Education [Jewish Education 1/4]
Feb 07, 2023
Listener Questions
Jan 24, 2023
Malka Simkovich: The Secrets of Second Temple Judaism
Jan 17, 2023
Yitzchak Breitowitz: Navigating Controversy
Jan 10, 2023
Channah Cohen: The Crisis of Experience [Romance & Commitment 5/5]
Jan 03, 2023
How Different Jewish Communities Date [Romance & Commitment 4/5]
Dec 27, 2022
2022: A Year Beyond Words (and Numbers)
Dec 26, 2022
Zahava Moskowitz: Singled Out [Romance & Commitment 3/5]
Dec 20, 2022
Red Flags: A Conversation with Shalom Task Force Featuring Esther Williams and Shana Frydman [Romance & Commitment 2/5]
Dec 13, 2022
Dovid Bashevkin: My Dating Story - On Religious and & Romantic Commitment [Romance & Commitment 1/5]
Dec 08, 2022
Yosef Bronstein: Rav Tzadok & Rav Kook on Jewish History [Origins of Judaism 5/6]
Nov 29, 2022
Yonatan Adler: What Archeologists Find [Origins of Judaism 4/6]
Nov 22, 2022
Tova Ganzel: The Judaism of the Prophets & the People [Origins of Judaism 3/6]
Nov 15, 2022
Lawrence Schiffman: The World of Early Judaism [Origins of Judaism 2/6]
Nov 08, 2022
Anonymous: Searching for the Beginning [Origins of Judaism 1/6]
Nov 01, 2022
Child & Parental Alienation: Keeping Families Together [Teshuva 6/6]
Oct 03, 2022
Mark Moskowitz: Within: What Going to Jail Taught Me About Teshuva [Teshuva 5/6]
Sep 28, 2022
Shais Taub: Teshuva of Innocence and Experience [Teshuva 4/6]
Sep 20, 2022
Kayla Haber-Goldstein: Questioning the Answers: Rebuilding Your Faith [Teshuva 3/6]
Sep 13, 2022
Antonio García Martínez: Optionality and Choosing Judaism [Teshuva 2/6]
Sep 06, 2022
Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld: What We Can Learn About Teshuva From Jewish Outreach [Teshuva 1/6]
Aug 30, 2022
Listener Questions
Aug 23, 2022
Ari Koretzky: In Conversation with Dovid Bashevkin
Aug 16, 2022
On Loss: A Child
Aug 02, 2022
Emanuel Feldman: On Being a Jewish Writer [Books 3/3]
Jul 26, 2022
Michelle Margolis: What Do Librarians Do? [Books 2/3]
Jul 19, 2022
Three Editors: A Conversation with Heads of the Major Jewish Publishers [Books 1/3]
Jul 12, 2022
Rabbi Shalom Carmy: How I Ground My Faith [Rationality 4/4]
Jul 05, 2022
Malka Simkovich: The Mystery of the Jewish People [Rationality 3/4]
Jun 28, 2022
Steven Gotlib: Some Rabbi Grapples With His Faith [Rationality 2/4]
Jun 21, 2022
Jeff Bloom: Some Guy Wrote a Book about Jewish Theology [Rationality 1/4]
Jun 14, 2022
Listener Questions
Jun 07, 2022
Shira Berkovits: Creating Safe Spaces [Abuse 3/3]
May 24, 2022
Rahel Bayar: Developing Healthy Boundaries [Abuse 2/3]
May 17, 2022
Aharon Schrieber: What Happens When You Call the Police? [Abuse 1/3]
May 10, 2022
Adina and Eric Yoffie: A Different Path, Still Family [Divergence 5/5]
Apr 19, 2022
Moshe and Asher Weinberger: Heart of the Fire: Together Even With Small Differences [Divergence 4/5]
Apr 12, 2022
Larry and Tzipora Rothwachs: Here Without You - A Child's Eating Disorder [Divergence 3/5]
Apr 05, 2022
Bruce Feiler: The Stories That Bind Us [Divergence 2/5]
Mar 29, 2022
Intergenerational Divergence: Recap, Reflections, and Response [Divergence 1/5]
Mar 22, 2022
Alex Edelman: Taking Comedy Seriously: Purim
Mar 15, 2022
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: A Healthy Relationship with Halacha [Halacha 4/4]
Mar 01, 2022
Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg: Discovering Your Halachic Story [Halacha 3/4]
Feb 22, 2022
Dr. Moshe Koppel: Halacha as a Language [Halacha 2/4]
Feb 15, 2022
Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik: The Rupture and Reconstruction of Halacha [Halacha 1/4]
Feb 08, 2022
Listener Questions and Behind the Scenes with the 18Forty Team
Feb 01, 2022
Marika Feuerstein: The Mentsch of Malden Mills: A Granddaughter Reflects on the Life and Legacy of Aaron Feuerstein [Wealth 4/4]
Jan 11, 2022
Ari Bergmann: Giving Wealth a Rest: The Economics of Shemittah [Wealth 3/4]
Jan 04, 2022
Eli Langer & Zevy Wolman: How We Keep Our Finances Kosher [Wealth 2/4]
Dec 28, 2021
Mark Trencher: Orthonomics: The Cost of Frum Life [Wealth 1/4]
Dec 20, 2021
Zohar Atkins: Between Philosophy and Torah [Rationality 5/5]
Dec 14, 2021
Simi Peters: Building New Faith Foundations [Rationality 4/5]
Dec 07, 2021
Samuel Lebens: The Line Between Rationality and Mysticism [Rationality 3/5]
Nov 30, 2021
Shmuel Phillips: Reclaiming Judaism [Rationality 2/5]
Nov 23, 2021
Anxiety and Rationality: A Personal Anonymous Account [Rationality 1/5]
Nov 16, 2021
The Books of Shabbos [Shabbos 3/3]
Nov 01, 2021
The Legacy of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Oct 26, 2021
Judith Shulevitz: The World of Shabbos [Shabbos 2/3]
Oct 19, 2021
Senator Joe Lieberman: The Gift of Shabbos [Shabbos 1/3]
Oct 12, 2021
Yabloner Rebbe: The Rebbe of Change [Teshuva 5/5]
Sep 12, 2021
Miriam Gisser: Recovery as Change [Teshuva 4/5]
Sep 03, 2021
Agnes Callard: A Philosophy of Change [Teshuva 3/5]
Aug 31, 2021
Alex Clare: Changing in Public [Teshuva 2/5]
Aug 23, 2021
Rav Judah Mischel: A Change in Progress [Teshuva 1/5]
Aug 17, 2021
Summer Unwind: Documentary Film [Summer Unwind 3/3]
Aug 09, 2021
Summer Unwind: Fiction [Summer Unwind 2/3]
Aug 03, 2021
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt: Non-Fiction [Summer Unwind 1/3]
Jul 27, 2021
On Loss: A Parent
Jul 16, 2021
On Loss: A Spouse
Jul 13, 2021
Jewish Peoplehood Roundup
Jul 06, 2021
Comedy Roundup
Jun 29, 2021
David Bashevkin: The Anniversary Episode
Jun 22, 2021
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter: Should We Censor Jewish History? [Censorship 3/3]
Jun 15, 2021
Jonathan Rosenblum: Communal Boundaries and Cancel Culture [Censorship 2/3]
Jun 08, 2021
Altie Karper: When a Book Is Banned [Censorship 1/3]
Jun 01, 2021
Protecting us from Ourselves: An Anonymous Perspective on Divorce [Agunah Crisis 4/4]
May 11, 2021
Bari Mitzmann: Social Media & Agunah Advocacy [Agunah Crisis 3/4]
May 04, 2021
Keshet Starr: How Should we Advocate for Agunot? [Agunah Crisis 2/4]
Apr 27, 2021
Rabbi Shlomo Weissman: The Rabbinic Will and Agunot [Agunah Crisis 1/4]
Apr 20, 2021
Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree [Divergence 4/4]
Apr 05, 2021
Menachem Penner and Gedalia Robinson: A Child's Orientation [Divergence 3/4]
Mar 22, 2021
Daniel Grama & Aliza Grama: A Child in Recovery [Divergence 1/4]
Mar 08, 2021
Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: How Can God be Found After Trauma? [God 3/3]
Feb 23, 2021
Dr. Aaron Segal: Can God Be Proven? [God 2/3]
Feb 16, 2021
Rabbi David Aaron: How Should We Talk About God? [God 1/3]
Feb 09, 2021
OTD Highlights
Jan 26, 2021
Talmud Highlights
Jan 19, 2021
Why 1840?
Jan 12, 2021
Eli Rubin: How do Mysticism and Social Action Interact? [Social Justice 3/3]
Jan 05, 2021
Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz: How Should We Educate About Social Justice? [Social Justice 2/3]
Dec 29, 2020
Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: Is There a Torah Approach to our Social Responsibility? [Social Justice 1/3]
Dec 22, 2020
Rabbi Meir Triebitz: How Should We Approach the Science of the Torah? [Science 4/4]
Dec 08, 2020
Rabbi David Fohrman: Does the Torah Teach Science? [Science 3/4]
Dec 01, 2020
Professor Allison Coudert: How did Religion Influence Science? [Science 2/4]
Nov 24, 2020
Dr. Jeremy England: What Does a Scientist See in the Torah? [Science 1/4]
Nov 17, 2020
Rav Moshe Weinberger: Can Mysticism Become a Community? [Mysticism 3/3]
Nov 03, 2020
Dr. Ora Wiskind: How do you Read a Mystical Text? [Mysticism 2/3]
Oct 27, 2020
Joey Rosenfeld: Can Mysticism Heal Us? [Mysticism 1/3]
Oct 20, 2020
Samuel G. Freedman: Can Jew vs. Jew Ever Become Jew with Jew? [Peoplehood 4/4]
Sep 29, 2020
Bethany S. Mandel: Jews without Community [Peoplehood 3/4]
Sep 22, 2020
Laura E. Adkins: Is There Room for All Opinions? [Peoplehood 2/4]
Sep 15, 2020
Rav Aaron Lopiansky: What Tribes do you Contain Inside? [Peoplehood 1/4]
Sep 10, 2020
Reflections Four Months After Launch
Aug 25, 2020
Gil Student: Where are the Lines?
Aug 17, 2020
Biblical Criticism Conclusion
Aug 17, 2020
Joshua Berman: What Should We Believe?
Aug 03, 2020
Biblical Criticism Intro
Jul 26, 2020
Daniel Feldman: Punchlines with Boundaries and Opportunities
Jul 19, 2020
Comedy Conclusion
Jul 19, 2020
Leah Forster: Of Comedy and Community
Jul 12, 2020
Gary Gulman: This Impossible Life
Jul 05, 2020
Comedy Intro
Jun 28, 2020
OTD: Leaving Religion Conclusion
May 28, 2020
Kelsey Osgood: A Conversion Narrative of Sorts
May 28, 2020
Philo Judaeus: Is There a Room for Dialogue?
May 28, 2020
Shulem Deen: Faith, without Faith
May 28, 2020
OTD: Leaving Religion Intro
May 27, 2020
Why 1840?
May 05, 2020
Talmud Conclusion
Apr 21, 2020
Is Talmud the Jewish Constitution? A Conversation with Chaim Saiman
Mar 18, 2020
Talmud as an Agent of Chaos: A Conversation with Ari Bergmann
Mar 18, 2020
A Page is Worth A Thousand Worlds: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner
Mar 18, 2020
Talmud Intro
Mar 17, 2020
Journey to 18Forty: A Conversation with Mitchell D. Eichen
Mar 16, 2020