Episode 20: Painting Herzl in the Age of AI with Avraham Vofsi

Episode 25: The Future Is a Torah Story with Rabbi Danny Burkeman

Mike Wirth sits down with Rabbi Danny Burkeman, Senior Rabbi at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland, Massachusetts, and host of the award-winning podcast Two Minutes of Torah. Danny was raised in the British Reform movement, ordained in 2009, and has spent his rabbinical career making Judaism urgent and alive for the modern world. This episode […]

Episode 24: Reclaiming the Future of Zionism with Eitan Chitayat

In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth sits down with writer and creative director Eitan Chitayat, creator of the viral I’m That Jew project, to talk about his new campaign “Zionism Is”, created with former Knesset member and leading Zionism thinker Dr. Einat Wilf. Together, they explore how Jewish creatives can […]

Episode 23: Jewish futurist Learning Spaces with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz

In this episode, we sit on the patio at Lehrhaus, a Jewish tavern and house of learning in Somerville, in front of a mural by Boston based Jewish artist Chloe Rubinstein, and explore the story behind this unusual space. Rabbi Charlie Schwartz shares his Jewish origin story, how he and cofounder Joshua Foer first imagined […]

Episode 22: Future Judaism on Campus with Rabbi Daniel Levine

In this episode, Rabbi Daniel Levine, Hillel rabbi, podcast host, and Jewish history professor at UC Irvine, joins us for a wide ranging conversation about the future of Jewish life on campus and beyond. We talk about how October 7 has reshaped the emotional and spiritual landscape for students, the tensions he feels between pastoral […]

Episode 21: Psychology of the future with Shely Rachel Esses

In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth sits down with therapist Shely Rachel Esses, LMFT, to explore the psychology of the future self and what it takes to imagine a life beyond survival mode. Shely brings together clinical psychology, nervous system science, embodied healing, and Jewish spiritual wisdom to show how […]