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Rabbi Shlomo Weissman: The Rabbinic Will and Agunot [Agunah Crisis 1/4]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Shlomo Weissman - head of Beth Din of America, YU Professor, and former lawyer - about the halakhic complexities of, and attempted solutions fo...
20 Apr 20211h 28min
Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree [Divergence 4/4]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Andrew Solomon - a Pulitzer Prize finalist - about intergenerational divergence, as well as his book, Far from the Tree, which was in some ways the v...
5 Apr 20211h 11min
Menachem Penner and Gedalia Robinson: A Child's Orientation [Divergence 3/4]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Menachem Penner—dean of RIETS at Yeshiva University—and his son Gedalia—a musician, cantor-in-training, and member of the LGBTQ community—about...
22 Mars 20211h 19min
Daniel Grama & Aliza Grama: A Child in Recovery [Divergence 1/4]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Daniel Grama—rabbi of Westside Shul and Valley Torah High School—and his daughter Aliza—a former Bais Yaakov student and recovered addict...
8 Mars 20211h 28min
Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: How Can God be Found After Trauma? [God 3/3]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel—speaker, educator, and yoetzet halacha— about the effects of tragedy on emunah. In 2014, Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel’...
23 Feb 20211h 22min
Dr. Aaron Segal: Can God Be Proven? [God 2/3]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Aaron Segal, philosophy professor and student of both Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Alvin Plantinga, to discuss God from the perspective of a...
16 Feb 20211h 28min
Rabbi David Aaron: How Should We Talk About God? [God 1/3]
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi David Aaron, author, thinker, and educator, to discuss what God is and isn’t. People often think of God as a powerful, heavenly figure gi...
9 Feb 20211h 16min
OTD Highlights
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down for a special session with our host, David Bashevkin, to discuss one of the podcast’s first topics: going off the derech. There are many preconcepti...
26 Jan 202156min
