A Jewish Take on AI and Social Media
Humanity’s struggle to adapt to technology is hardly new — it has been with us since at least the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. As early as 1936, for instance, Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” — his last silent film and one of the most iconic movies of all time — offered a commentary on the fate of humans in an age of industrialization, corporate greed and automation: In the film’s most famous sequence, Chaplin, playing the role of the “Little Tramp,” gets hired to work on an assembly line in a factory, where he quickly finds himself swallowed up by the gears of a massive machine.
Korach and Jewish Lessons on Leadership
One of the more dramatic stories in the Bible occurs in Numbers, chapter 16, when Korach, a Levite, along with two members of the tribe of Reuben, Datan and Abiram, foment a rebellion against Moses and Aaron as the Israelites are journeying through the desert on their way to the Land of Israel. The challenge […]
Judaism, Gender, and the Seeds of Prejudice
This year, I read the opening passages of the Torah portion of Tazria (Leviticus Ch. 12) with a different lens than I have in the past. I’ve long believed that the meaning of any Biblical passage lies in the realm between the words in the text and the life experience of the person reading the […]