The Jewish futurism Lab podcast

The Jewish futurism Lab

Mike Wirth

The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow is a creative audio laboratory where Jewish tradition meets design, technology, and speculative imagination. Host Mike Wirth explores Torah, myth, ritual, art history, and emerging tools like AI to prototype Jewish futures rooted in ethics, dignity, and meaning. New episodes blend story, studio practice, and future-thinking, with companion visuals and essays at mikewirthart.com.

30 Episodes

Episode 41: The Future of the Jewish Renaissance is now with Moshe Shama
11/13/2026
2:20:03
What does it take to build a Jewish cultural renaissance, beyond just calling for one? Jerusalem-based artist and educator Moshe Shamah joins Mike Wirth in the Jewish futurism Lab to explore how the fragments we inherit can become material for the futures we build. From sifting archaeological remains in Jerusalem to creating collage and Hebrew […]
Episode 40: The Next Chapter of Jewish Fantasy with J.S. Gold
11/6/2026
1:07:30
What happens when Jewish identity becomes the source of a fantasy hero’s power, rather than a detail in the background? Mike Wirth sits down with J.S. Gold, author of The Sanhedrin Chronicles, to explore a fantasy world built from Jewish mysticism, ancestral memory, and the possibilities of sacred storytelling. Inspired by watching Black Panther, JS […]
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Episode 39: Cutting Comics into Torah with Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik
10/30/2026
1:44:38
Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik cuts up actual comic books, Kirby, Eisner, the Jewish writers and artists who built the whole industry, and reassembles them into Torah. He didn’t start there. He grew up in 70s and 80s LA, haunting the Golden Apple Comic Shop, found something of his own post-Bar Mitzvah self in Kitty Pryde, and later […]
Episode 38: Shofars, Samples, and The Future of Jewish Hip Hop with Schmidty
10/23/2026
1:51:57
Philadelphia rapper Schmidty (Steven Schmidt) joins The Jewish futurism Lab to talk about turning ancestral memory into modern sound. Grandson of four Holocaust survivors who escaped Poland through Siberia, he grew up between Brooklyn and Northeast Philly before building a career that fuses Klezmer, Shofar, and hip-hop into something distinctly his own. The conversation covers […]
Episode 37: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood with Dr. Molly Dunn
10/18/2026
1:46:35
In this episode of Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth speaks with Dr. Molly Dunn, educator, scholar, and Jewish communal leader, about what it means to teach Jewish identity, peoplehood, and history in a time of rising antisemitism and profound cultural confusion. Dunn traces her journey from progressive academic spaces and anti-Zionist assumptions to a deeper […]
Episode 36: The Future of Jewish Visibility is a Sticker with Gabriel Meister
10/9/2026
1:47:20
Gabriel Meister spent 25 years as a transactional attorney, trained at Harvard Law, before October 7th cracked something open. Now, under the name Gabe Draws, he’s a core voice in the Hatikva Sticker Collective, printing stickers for a penny apiece and plastering them across New York City in what he calls a mimetic battle for […]
Episode 35: The Future of Feminism After Antisemitism with Kara Jesella
10/2/2026
1:39:25
In this episode of the Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth sits down with Kara Jesella, feminist scholar and Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, to discuss her new book, Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History. Kara traces how antipathy toward Jews became embedded in feminist thought from the 1960s to today. […]
Episode 34: Pop Art & The Prophets with Anshie Kagan
9/18/2026
1:02:03
Anshie Kagan is a Chicago-based Jewish pop artist whose work runs across a multitude of Jewish people, objects, and ideas, rendering rebbes and gedolim in Warhol color and recasting the Ten Commandments as scannable QR codes. In this episode, Mike Wirth talks with Anshie about his path from an Orthodox upbringing between Boston and Lakewood, […]
Episode 33: Breathing Beyond the Beit Midrash with Yaakov Ginsberg-Schreck
9/11/2026
1:29:12
Yaakov Ginsberg-Schreck transitioned from rabbinical ordination at Hebrew College to apply his education toward building RUACH, a Boston-based nonprofit turning breath, movement, and Kabbalah into a new kind of Jewish community. On this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth talks with Yaakov about leaving one institution to build something new, whether yoga can […]
Episode 32: Judeofuturism Is Exile, Rewritten, with Jacob Hasse Albino
9/4/2026
1:40:28
In this episode of the Jewish futurism Lab, Mike Wirth talks with Jacob Hasse Albino, the Jewish Brazilian storyteller and chazzan (cantor) behind Judeofuturism. Jacob’s project is a series of visionary novella stories imagining Jews in space. In Tales from Galut, Jewish refugees leave a devastated Earth and build a new home on the planet […]

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