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18Forty Podcast — 296 episodes · page 1 of 3
On Presence, Questions, and Independence: Remembering Rav Ezra Neuberger
Elliot Kaufman: October 7 and What Came After
Seforim Chatter x 18Forty: How Jewish History Changes the Way We Learn Torah
Liel Leibovitz: Why the Talmud Is So Hard To Love—and Worth Loving
YY Jacobson: The Teshuva of Coming Back to Yourself
Etan Epstein: New Journeys in Torah Learning
Tania Friedlander: Teshuva and Becoming Capable of More
Ben and Yael de Toledo: Baalei Teshuva Building Community in Israel
Shlomo Pill: When a Rabbi Doctor Struggles With Addiction
Mendel Horowitz: A Good Enough Elul
Berel Leib Epstein: Why Be a Believer?
YY Jacobson: 'Jews were chosen to hold onto the frequency of redemptive consciousness' [18 Questions, 40 Mystics]
Shalom Rosner and Sara Zimbalist: Loss, Faith, and Gratitude
Carmi Schwartz: The Road That Got Us Here [American Jewish History 4/4]
Jenna Weissman Joselit: Being Jewish in America [American Jewish History 3/4]
Zev Eleff: 250 Years of American Judaism [American Jewish History 2/4]
Elana Moskowitz: In Appreciation of My American Jewish Childhood [American Jewish History 1/4]
Finance Debate: Larry Rothwachs and Leslie Ginsparg Klein
Listener Feedback with David Bashevkin
David Bashevkin: ‘We are meant to teach the world how to embrace unchosen identity’ [18 Questions, 40 Mystics]
Agunah Revisited: How To Avoid High Conflict Divorce
Adam Ferziger: Agents of Change [Israel & Diaspora II 4/4]
Alana Newhouse: Why is the Whole World Fighting About Zionism? [Israel & Diaspora II 3/4]
Michael Olshin: Reimagining the Gap Year in Israel [Israel & Diaspora II 2/4]
Michael Eisenberg: Iran, USA, Israel: What Comes Next [Israel & Diaspora II 1/4]
When a Parent Becomes Estranged [Divergence VI 4/4]
David & Sydney Magerman: When a Child Makes Aliyah [Divergence VI 3/4]
Shaanan Gelman & His Son: When a Child Becomes Addicted [Divergence VI 2/4]
Yakov Danishefsky: Transmitting the Jewish Story with Emotional Health [Divergence VI 1/4]
What Garry Shandling's Jewish Comedy Teaches About Purim
Yehuda Geberer: What's the History of the American Yeshiva World? [American Yeshiva World 3/3]
Aaron Kotler: Inside the Lakewood Yeshiva [American Yeshiva World 2/3]
Elisheva Carlebach & Debra Kaplan: The Unknown History of Women in Jewish Life [American Yeshiva World 1/3]
Eitan Webb and Ari Israel: What's Next for Jewish Students in Secular College? [Denominations 4/5]
Mark Wildes: Is Modern Orthodox Outreach the Way Forward? [Denominations 3/4]
Zevi Slavin: 'To be a mystic is to be human at its most raw' [18 Questions, 40 Mystics]
Dovid Bashevkin: A Reform Rabbi Interviews an Orthodox Rabbi [Denominations 2/4]
An Orthodox Rabbi Interviews a Reform Rabbi [Denominations 1/4]
Yabloner Rebbe: The Rebbe of Change (Teshuva Re-Release)
Shais Taub: A Vulnerable Conversation About Shame, Selfhood, and Authenticity [Mysticism III 3/3]
Philip Goff: Consciousness, Mysticism, and God [Mysticism III 2/3]
Alon Shalev: How Rav Hutner Found Existential Meaning [Mysticism III 1/3]
NEW: 18 Questions, 40 Mystics with Joey Rosenfeld
What To Do When Families Become Estranged [Re-Release]
AI & Halacha: On Transparency and Accountability [AI 4/4]
Is AI the New Printing Press? [AI 3/4]
Julia Senkfor & Cameron Berg: Does AI Have an Antisemitism Problem? [AI 2/4]
Steven Gotlib & Eli Rubin: What Does It Mean To Be Human? [AI 1/4]
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin: How Torah Gives Us Faith and Hope
Moshe Koppel: Artificial Intelligence and Torah [Prayer Re-Release]
Moshe Benovitz: Why Religious Change Doesn't Always Last [Teshuva 6/6]
Naftuli Moster: Leaving Haredi Education Activism [Teshuva 5/6]
Gayle Kirschenbaum: Learning to Forgive My Mother [Teshuva 4/6]
Sarah Hurwitz: Reclaiming Judaism from Shame and Blame [Teshuva 3/6]
DovBer Pinson: The Jewish People's Path of Teshuva [Teshuva 2/6]
Rochi Ebner: Rav Kook's Return to Our Soul [Teshuva 1/6]
Joey Rosenfeld: What Does Jewish Mysticism Say About This Moment? [Teshuva Bonus Episode]
David Bashevkin: My Dating Story [Re-Release]
How Jews Date in the Modern World (Re-Release)
Hadas Hershkovitz: On Loss: A Husband, Father, Soldier [Loss 3/3]
Elissa Felder & Sonia Hoffman: How the Jewish Burial Society Cares for the Dead [Loss 2/3]
Shlomo Brody & Beth Popp: Demystifying Death and the End of Life [Loss 1/3]
Micah Goodman: 'I don't want Gaza to become our Vietnam' (18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers)
Ayala Fader: How Do Haredi Jews Deal With Religious Doubt? [OTD 3/3]
A Debate Between Yitzchak Blau & Itamar Rosensweig: Does Morality Exist Outside of Judaism?
David Bashevkin & Malka Simkovich: Can Judaism Survive the AI Revolution? (Fifth Year Anniversary)
Daniel Hagler and Aryeh Englander: Can Jews Who Stay Talk With Jews Who Left? [OTD 2/3]
Moshe Krakowski: Why Jews Leave Faith Behind [OTD 1/3]
Shulem Deen: Faith, Without Faith (OTD Series Re-Release)
The Gopins: When a Child Cannot Read [Divergence 6/6]
Talia Khan: A Jewish Israel Activist and Her Muslim Father [Divergence 5/6]
Susan Cain: A Daughter’s Bittersweet Longing for Her Mother [Divergence 4/6]
The Dardik Family: A Child Moves Away From Zionism [Divergence 3/6]
The Samter Family: American Parents With Israeli Sons Fighting in Gaza [Divergence 2/6]
Sylvia and Simon Jacobson: How Different Generations Talk About Jewish Life [Divergence 1/6]
Eitan Hersh: Can the Jewish Left Talk With the Jewish Right? [Outreach: Bonus]
David Bashevkin: 5 Things SNL Taught Me About Life (Purim Special)
Ken Brodkin: A Shul Becomes Orthodox [Outreach 5/5]
Lizzy Savetsky: Becoming a Jewish Influencer and Israel Advocate [Outreach 4/5]
Ari Lamm: Teaching Non-Jews To Love the Bible [Outreach 3/5]
Frieda Vizel: How the World Misunderstands Hasidic Jewry [Outreach 2/5]
Yitzchok Adlerstein: Zionism, the American Yeshiva World, and Reaching Beyond Our Community [Outreach 1/5]
Natan Sharansky: 'If you don't have faith or Zionism, your grandchildren will not be Jewish' (18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers)
Haym Soloveitchik: The Rupture and Reconstruction of Halacha (Halacha Series Re-Release)
Listener Feedback with David Bashevkin
Haym Soloveitchik: How Modernity Changed Our Relationship to God
Reuven and Shani Taragin: What’s Next: The Future of Religious Zionism (Re-Release)
Einat Wilf: ‘Jews Are Never Allowed To Win, and Arabs Are Never Allowed to Lose' (18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers)
What’s the Goal of the Gap Year in Israel? Ari Waxman, Judah Mischel, and Gershon Turetsky [Israel & Diaspora Bonus]
Mickey and Ortal Flaumenhaft: Diaspora Differences: Israelis Come to Teaneck [Israel & Diaspora 5/5]
Yehuda and Ilana Turetsky: Why Would an American Rabbinic Couple Move to Israel? [Israel & Diaspora 4/5]
Shayna Goldberg: Inside Israel’s Religious Zionist Community [Israel & Diaspora 3/5]
Malka Simkovich: When Did The Jewish Diaspora Begin? [Israel & Diaspora 2/5]
Moshe Taragin: Does Israel Need American Jews? [Israel & Diaspora 1/5]
Haviv Rettig Gur: 'Hamas Is Upset That the Death Toll in Gaza Isn’t Higher' (18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers)
Matisyahu: Teshuva in the Spotlight [Teshuva IV 5/5]
The Memories We Hold: How October 7 Has Forever Changed Us
Emmi Polansky: Finding Agency as a Single Mother [Teshuva IV 4/5]
Tuvia Tenenbom: How a Secular Jew Came To Love the Haredi World [Teshuva IV 3/5]
Yussie Zakutinsky: Connecting to a Disconnected Jewish People [Teshuva IV 2/5]