In this minisode of the 18Forty Podcast, the hosts reflect on the importance of their community and how it has motivated them to delve deeper into questions about Jewish identity.

In this minisode of the 18Forty Podcast, the hosts express their gratitude to their community for their support and encouragement throughout the past year.

The debate between centralization and the authority of local rabbis in making halakhic decisions within the Modern Orthodox community has important implications.

In this response to an essay by R. Ezra Schwartz, Nathaniel Helfgot discusses the centralization of halakhic decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The traditional Jewish matchmaker role, embodied by Fiddler on the Roof's Yente, has evolved into communal crowdsourced matchmaking in the digital age, particularly accelerated by COVID-19.