What is the next chapter in Judaism's story the next step in its journey? The dramatic changes
of recent decades invite us to explore what role Judaism is to play in this new era. As the
digital future becomes the present Danny Schiff makes the case that the period known as
modernity has come to an end. Noting the declining strength of Conservative and Reform Judaism
the largest US Jewish movements of modernity he argues for new iterations of Judaism to arise
in response to the myriad of weighty questions that now confront us about what it means to be
human. Here is an account of the digital age through a Jewish lens in which Schiff examines
Jewish teachings and traditions exploring what moral insight they might have to offer in this
period of great flux. He marshals the thought of well-known futurists such as Ray Kurzweil and
Yuval Noah Harari to forecast the exponentially larger shifts in the human condition that lie
ahead and proposes that a countercultural Judaism could have renewed relevance in addressing
some of the pressing issues that confront humanity in the twenty-first century.
