Content by David Zvi Kalman, PhD
David Zvi works on issues of technology, religion, and art. He is the host of the Belief in the Future podcast. 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. He has been widely published in both academic and popular publications. David Zvi holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Toronto. He is also a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Kogod Research Center.
He blogs at the website Jello Menorah and his work can be found at davidzvi.com.
Judaism is a Speedrun
What do online communities that deconstruct, reconstruct and iterate on media have in common with the communal practices of rabbinic Judaism?
Why Two Religions Invented a Bad Lamp
How can resisting new technologies actually lead to the creation of more technology?
On AI, Jewish Thought Has Something Distinct to Say
How do the major world religions differ in their approaches to AI? It’s not yet clear—but David Zvi Kalman believes an emergent Jewish AI ethics is doing something unique.
Why Is Religion Slow? A Conversation with Dr. David Zvi Kalman
In a time when we have seen many steps forward followed by steps back, what can we learn with how tradition and technology intersect?