Contemporary Culture
From the Sapir Institute
The metaverse holds the promise of better interactions among people, but not if we default to re-creating the systems and structures that cater to society’s lowest common denominator
From “Technology: The Experience,” a special section exploring technology’s influence on Jewish life: technology as a vessel of holiness
From “Technology: The Experience,” a special section exploring technology’s influence on Jewish life: the new world of death
History would suggest that rather than resist steel because it can be beaten into swords, we do better to embrace it and make plowshares instead
From “Technology: The Experience,” a special section exploring technology’s influence on Jewish life: the unique position of summer camps as phone-free spaces
The situation we face today will require us to go beyond a legal response into theological, anthropological, and philosophical territory, because it questions the very assumptions upon which the halakhic edifice is built
The idea that technology should or can be separated from politics is wrong: Technology is among the most fundamental issues in all of politics
From “Technology: The Experience,” a special section exploring technology’s influence on Jewish life: starting a conversation with students
The technology that has opened our eyes to people far away is closing our ears to opinions different from our own