Technologies of Transmission: Torah and New Media
Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld
Rabbanit Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld is the Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, an online database and interface for Jewish texts. She is passionate about expanding Jewish textual knowledge for all. Sara is also a fellow at the David Hartman Center at the Hartman Institute of North America. Her previous experience includes serving as Director of Education at the Center for Jewish Life – Hillel at Princeton University as part of the OU’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus. She studied Talmud and Jewish Law at various institutions of Jewish learning in Israel and America including Midreshet Lindenbaum, Drisha, Nishmat, and Beit Morasha and speaks on various Jewish topics at synagogues, schools, and university communities. Sara and her family live in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago.
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In an age of new media and within a culture that is constantly inventing new ways to share information, modes and media for Torah learning are being disrupted and renewed. This class will contextualize these changes within the tradition of media shifts documented in rabbinic sources, and consider some of the ethical questions inherent in these technological shifts. How might we align new media with our learning goals, as individuals and as a community?