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		<description>The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow is a creative audio laboratory where Jewish tradition meets design, technology, and speculative imagination. Host Mike Wirth explores Torah, myth, ritual, art history, and emerging tools like AI to prototype Jewish futures rooted in ethics, dignity, and meaning. New episodes blend story, studio practice, and future-thinking, with companion visuals and essays at mikewirthart.com.</description>
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	<title>Episode 26: The Future Song of Cantors with Hollis Schachner</title>
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	<title>Episode 25: The Future Is a Torah Story with Rabbi Danny Burkeman</title>
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	<title>Episode 24: Reclaiming the Future of Zionism with Eitan Chitayat</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 23: Jewish futurist Learning Spaces with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz</title>
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	<title>Episode 22: Future Judaism on Campus with Rabbi Daniel Levine</title>
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	<title>Episode 21: Psychology of the future with Shely Rachel Esses</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 20: Painting Herzl in the Age of AI with Avraham Vofsi</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Mike Wirth talks with Israeli realist painter Avraham “Avi” Vofsi about classical oil painting, Jewish identity, and his AI assisted Theodor Herzl project. They explore how to use new tools without losing the human aura, and what Jewish images might look like in the future. Check out Avi&#8217;s beautiful artwork on his website and follow [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 19 -Designing Shabbat: A UX Approach to Jewish Ritual Design</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth shares the story behind a UX‑driven case study in Jewish ritual. Mike talks about creating the High and Low Ritual at the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum’s Social Practice Institute, and how that work led to speculative ritual objects like a geodesic sukkah dome, an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 18 &#8211; Here I Am: The Hineni Project, Bar Shechter z&#8221;l, and Painting Through Grief</title>
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	<title>Episode 17- Recoding the Lehrhaus: Jewish Learning in the Future Tense</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[This episode explores Franz Rosenzweig’s radical vision for Jewish education through the Frankfurt Lehrhaus (1920) and traces its influence into contemporary experiments in creative, future-oriented learning. Rosenzweig rejected passive transmission of knowledge and instead cultivated dialogical, participatory study rooted in lived experience. His Lehrhaus was not simply a school. It was a reorientation of how [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 16: The Digital Worlds of Erez Cohen</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow, host Mike Wirth sits down with his friend, Israeli digital artist and projection‑mapping creator&#160;Erez Cohen. Mike first encountered Erez’s work through a projection‑mapping piece called&#160;Metamorphosis, where veins and fungi slowly overtake a Jerusalem building and turn the city itself into a living, speculative Jewish [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 15- Hiddur Olam: The Creative Torah System for Jewish futurist Living</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode, Mike unpacks Hiddur Olam, his creative Torah system and multi‑volume art book series that reimagines Genesis through Jewish futurism, design thinking, Mussar, and Kabbalah. Listeners will hear how weekly parsha study, visual storytelling, and spiritual practice come together as a framework for beautifying the world through creative Torah. Discover Hiddur Olam, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>EP 14- Papayas on the Moon- My Chat with Alejandro Glatt</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 13: How a Jewish Immigrant Named Hugo Created Sci-Fi</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 12:  Professors, Dads, and the Jewish future with Shai Davidai</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish Futurism Lab, Mike Wirth sits down with Shai Davidai, the Israeli‑born social psychologist and former Columbia Business School professor who became a prominent voice for Jewish students after October 7. Together they trace Shai’s journey from secular Israeli kid to public Jewish advocate, unpack what really happened for him [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 11: Jews, AI, and the Real Meaning of “Creative”</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth uses the 4C model of creativity to map out what we really mean by “creative” in an age of AI art and endless images. He traces his own journey from parametric code experiments to Jewish futurist murals, then layers in Jewish history, exile, and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 10 &#8211; From Utopia to Conspiracy: The Secret Battle Over Jewish Futures</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Jewish futurist and we&#8217;ll explore early Jewish futurism, Zionist art, and media history through Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland, Ephraim Moses Lilien’s Zionist Art Nouveau, and Boris Schatz’s Bezalel School in Jerusalem. He contrasts these utopian blueprints and design prototypes with the antisemitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 9: From Cult to Code: Tracing the History of the Aura in Art</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 8: Speed Kills : Why Every futurist must confront the past</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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