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UNOVIS School: Proto-Jewish futurism in Vitebsk, 1918
Vitebsk, a small, mostly Jewish city in the old Pale of Settlement, is remembered in the art books as a birthplace of the Russian avant‑garde, but almost never…
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Vibe Coding for 8 Crazy Nights
During my semester long sabbatical, I set out to experiment with new ways to tell Jewish stories, and I kept coming back to the immersive feeling of games.…
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Judaism Has No Ready‑Made Answer for AI, and That’s the Point
by Mike Wirth Judaism has no halakhic precedent, no formal theology, and no inherited best practices for artificial intelligence. There is no daf of Talmud that tells us…
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My Name Is Asher Lev: A Blueprint for Jewish futurism
Images included are used solely for commentary and academic analysis under fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law. During the first year of the pandemic in 2020, a…
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A Brief History of Jewish futurism
When I teach Design history courses, my students love how similar events, people and milestones are neatly packaged into movements and eras with interesting names, usually with an…
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Stop Using AI As A Hammer, When It’s A Screwdriver: My AI Odyssey Through The Classroom
This article is a teacher’s (me) journey out of the AI shadows and into classroom transformation. This article is a companion to a recorded lecture I gave on…
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