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		<description>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.</description>
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	<title>Episode 38: Shofars, Samples, and The Future of Jewish Hip Hop with Schmidty</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 37: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood with Dr. Molly Dunn</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 36: The Future of Jewish Visibility is a Sticker with Gabriel Meister</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 35: The Future of Feminism After Antisemitism with Kara Jesella</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 34: Pop Art &#038; The Prophets with Anshie Kagan</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 33: Breathing Beyond the Beit Midrash with Yaakov Ginsberg-Schreck</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 32: Judeofuturism Is Exile, Rewritten, with Jacob Hasse Albino</title>
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	<title>Episode 29: The Future of Ritual in Motion with Douglas Rosenberg</title>
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	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What makes a work of art Jewish when it does not announce itself with familiar symbols, dialogue, or plot? In this episode of the Jewish Futurism Lab, Mike Wirth speaks with Douglas Rosenberg, filmmaker, artist, theorist, and Vilas Distinguished Achievem]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Episode 27: Filming our future with Noam Leibman</title>
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	<title>Episode 26: The Future Song of Cantors with Hollis Schachner</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth sits down with his cousin, Cantor Hollis Schachner, to explore her future vision of cantors, community, and creativity. Hollis is a longtime spiritual leader and artist at Temple Shir Tikva in W]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 24: Reclaiming the Future of Zionism with Eitan Chitayat</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 23: Jewish futurist Learning Spaces with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 22: Future Judaism on Campus with Rabbi Daniel Levine</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, host Mike Wirth sits down with therapist Shely Rachel Esses, LMFT, to explore the psychology of the future self and what it takes to imagine a life beyond survival mode. Shely brings together clinical psycholog]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 16: The Digital Worlds of Erez Cohen</title>
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	<title>Episode 15- Hiddur Olam: The Creative Torah System for Jewish futurist Living</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In this episode, Mike unpacks Hiddur Olam, his creative Torah system and multi‑volume art book series that reimagines Genesis through Jewish futurism, design thinking, Mussar, and Kabbalah. Listeners will hear how weekly parsha study, visual storytelling]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 13: How a Jewish Immigrant Named Hugo Created Sci-Fi</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 12:  Professors, Dads, and the Jewish future with Shai Davidai</title>
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