Technologies of Transmission: From Sinai to Sefaria
Technologies of Transmission: From Sinai to Sefaria
This talk draws on Rabbinic sources as well as modern understandings of new technologies to explore the ways in which engagement with Jewish texts shaped by the media we use to consume these ancient words.
Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld is the Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, an online database and interface for Jewish texts in Hebrew and English. Sara is a member of Class Six of the Wexner Field Fellowship, and an alumna of the David Hartman Center at the Hartman Institute of North America. Sara also serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Ohev Sholom Congregation in Washington, DC. Her current research and writing focus on the intersection between Jewish ethics and advancements in technology. Sara’s writing has been published in The Atlantic, First Things, and Religion Dispatches, as well as numerous Jewish publications.