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What Will Our Technology Do to Jewish Ethics?

David Zvi Kalman explores the absence of a religious technological ethic and how we might go about constructing one.
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Dr. David Zvi Kalman is Scholar in Residence and Director of New Media at Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where he was also a member of the inaugural cohort of North American David Hartman Center Fellows. David Zvi leads the Kogod Research Center’s research seminar on Judaism and the Natural World. David Zvi holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Toronto. His research touches on Jewish

What Will Our Technology Do to Jewish Ethics?

The vast majority of contemporary conversations around technological ethics are secular in nature; they are plenty of books, articles, and research centers rooted in psychology, sociology, philosophy, or even history, but vanishingly few make appeals to any particular belief system. At the same time, very few of America’s religious leaders have taken it upon themselves to confront modern technology unless it is to reject it out of hand, as ultra-Orthodox Jews and Amish communities sometimes do.

In this session, David Zvi Kalman explores whether the absence of a religious technological ethic is a problem, and if it is, how do we go about constructing one?

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Symposium,  Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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