Technology: So Pervasive in Jewish Living, So Absent from Jewish Educational Research

ABSTRACT

The Jewish world, like the world civilization that hosts it, is awash in new technologies. Appropriately, there is a great deal of attention paid to how to improve the Jewish world and Jewish identity through technology. Paradoxically there is a paucity of literature characterizing the relationship of Jews and Judaism to technology. This article examines this relationship through a portrait of a 3-year Covenant-Jewish Education Center of Cleveland project entitled Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology. Seven areas of future research are suggested out of the exploration of these two sources.

Keywords:

• Education
• Jewish
• possibilities
• research
• technology

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Jeffrey Schein

Dr. Jeffrey Schein is senior consultant for Jewish education at the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood and the director of the Covenant project Text Me: Ancient Jewish Wisdom Meets Contemporary Technology.