With more than 3000 years of history, it's easy for Jews to get caught up in their own past. But what do we need to do to prepare Judaism for the future, and how do we make space for dreaming about the future when short-term existential threats are so real? How do we ensure that Jewish leaders are sufficiently conversant in the technologies that are reshaping human existence? In partnership with SAPIR: Ideas for a Thriving Jewish Future, please join us for a conversation with David Zvi Kalman and Josh Foer, moderated by SAPIR Associate Editor Felicia Herman, who will explore what it means for Judaism to remain a relevant, adaptable moral force today and far into the future. You can subscribe to the SAPIR newsletter here.

Dr. David Zvi Kalman is a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Kogod Research Center. He is a scholar, writer, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, religion, and art. He is the owner of Print-O-Craft Press, an independent publishing house that has released books including Jessica Deutsch’s The Illustrated Pirkei Avot and Noam Sienna’s A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. David Zvi holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Toronto. He blogs at the website Jello Menorah and his work can be found at davidzvi.com.

Journalist and entrepreneur Joshua Foer is the author of the international bestseller Moonwalking with Einstein, which has been published in 37 languages, and which was a finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and other publications. He is the co-founder and chairman of Atlas Obscura and the co-founder of several Jewish enterprises including Sefaria, Sukkah City, Leviathan, and most recently, Lehrhaus.

Felicia Herman is Managing Director, North America, of Maimonides Fund and Associate Editor of SAPIR: Ideas for a Thriving Jewish Future. She joined Maimonides in 2021 after 16 years as Executive Director of Natan, a giving circle/grantmaking foundation focused on supporting Jewish and Israeli social innovation. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish History and an M.A. in Jewish Women’s Studies from Brandeis University, and she is a proud recipient of the Jewish Funders Network’s JJ Greenberg Memorial Award.