Judaism in a Digital Age : An Ancient Tradition Confronts a Transformative Era / Danny Schiff.
Schiff, Danny.
2023
BM562 .S35 2023
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Title Judaism in a Digital Age : An Ancient Tradition Confronts a Transformative Era / Danny Schiff.
Author Schiff, Danny.
ISBN 3031179927 electronic book
9783031179921 (electronic bk.)
3031179919
9783031179914
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17992-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 216 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-17992-1 doi
Call Number BM562 .S35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.3
Summary What is the next chapter in Judaisms story, the next step in its journey? The dramatic changes of recent decades invite us to explore what role Judaism is to play in this new era. As the digital future becomes the present, Danny Schiff makes the case that the period known as "modernity" has come to an end. Noting the declining strength of Conservative and Reform Judaism, the largest US Jewish movements of modernity, he argues for new iterations of Judaism to arise in response to the myriad of weighty questions that now confront us about what it means to be human. Here is an account of the digital age through a Jewish lens, in which Schiff examines Jewish teachings and traditions, exploring what moral insight they might have to offer in this period of great flux. He marshals the thought of well-known futurists such as Ray Kurzweil and Yuval Noah Harari to forecast the exponentially larger shifts in the human condition that lie ahead, and proposes that a countercultural Judaism could have renewed relevance in addressing some of the pressing issues that confront humanity in the twenty-first century. Danny Schiff is the Foundation Scholar at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. He is the author of Abortion in Judaism (2002) and is a former member of the City of Pittsburgh Ethics Board and the Society of Jewish Ethics Board.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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