Will AI change Judaism and Jewish life? | The Jerusalem Post
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At a recent Deloitte event, “The AI Bottom Line,” Ilan Birnfeld, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Israel, made an observation that stayed with me.
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What happened
At a recent Deloitte event, “The AI Bottom Line,” Ilan Birnfeld, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Israel, made an observation that stayed with me.
Why it matters
“Artificial intelligence (AI),” he argued, “will not change us as human beings.
Common ground
But it will completely change our companies.” As I listened, I wondered what would happen if we replaced “company” with “the Jewish people.” AI may not change what it means to be Jewish.
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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.
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- What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: Will AI change Judaism and Jewish life??
- What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that For centuries, meaningful access to Jewish knowledge depended heavily on access to people?
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Claim 1: “For centuries, meaningful access to Jewish knowledge depended heavily on access to people.”
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The provided evidence includes a library of texts (Sefaria) and a general site for Jewish learning, but none of the sources explicitly confirm the historical claim that access to knowledge 'depended heavily on access to people' for centuries.
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— The largest free library of Jewish texts available to read online in Hebrew and English including Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, commentaries and more.
https://www.sefaria.org/
https://www.sefaria.org/
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— This movie offers a dramatic interpretation of the ancient Mesopotamian accounts of the Anunnaki and the hidden origins of humanity. According to ancient traditions, the Anunnaki came to Earth from th…
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— The shofar's blast is a call to wake up and show up for what matters. My Jewish Learning answers that call all year by keeping Jewish knowledge free and open to anyone who wants it. Your gift helps us…
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/israeli-flag/
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/israeli-flag/
Claim 2: “At a recent Deloitte event, “The AI Bottom Line,” Ilan Birnfeld, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Israel, made an observation”
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The claim is directly supported by one web search result from the Jewish People Policy Institute, but the other search results are irrelevant to the specific event or person. No second independent source confirms this specific observation at this specific event.
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— At a recent Deloitte event, “The AI Bottom Line,” Ilan Birnfeld, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Israel, made an observation that stayed with me. “Artificial intelligence (AI),” he argued, “will not chan…
https://jppi.org.il/en/ai-will-not-change-the-jews-or-will-i…
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— And the National AI Centre's latest Australian SME read says adoption is now sitting at roughly 43 percent, while confidence, clarity, and trust still lag. Use is spreading faster than value capture. …
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-activity-easy-find-improvi…
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— The Water Math Doesn't Support the Panic. Start with water, because it's the objection I see repeated most confidently and understood least well. The best current estimate is that U.S. data centers di…
https://goldseek.com/article/ai-your-backyard-water-and-wire…
https://goldseek.com/article/ai-your-backyard-water-and-wire…
Claim 3: “Israelis inhabit a Hebrew political and cultural universe that many Diaspora Jews encounter only indirectly, while Jewish communities across Europe conduct debates that most Israelis rarely hear.”
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Web search results explicitly discuss the cultural and identity gap between Israeli society and Diaspora Jews (specifically American/European), noting that Israeli society has developed an identity 'singular and apart' from the European cultural heritage of many Diaspora Jews.
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— Israeli Jews or Jewish Israelis (Hebrew: יהודים ישראלים Yêhūdīm Yīśrāʾēlīm) comprise Israel's largest ethnoreligious community. The core of their demographic consists of Jews and their descendants. Ab…
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— The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: גוֹלָה gōlā), alternatively the dispersion (תְּפוּצָה təfūṣā) or the exile (גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: גלות gōləs), consists of Jews who reside outside of the Land of Israel.…
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— Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيون) are historical designations for the Jews who inhabited Palestine (alternatively the Land of Israel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews
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Claim 4: “Jewish civilization has placed memory close to the center of collective existence. “Zakhor,” remember, is not simply an instruction to preserve information.”
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Multiple sources confirm the centrality of 'Zakhor' (remember) in Jewish tradition. Wikipedia and the Jewish Theological Seminary both link 'Zakhor' to the preservation of history and religious instruction (e.g., Deuteronomy 25:17-19).
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— It consists of four lectures that Yerushalmi gave as part of the 1980 series of "Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies", now known as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, at the Univer…
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— The modern Jewish historian can only testify to the truth of Jewish history as he discovers it, and to the truth of his own situation as he finds it. Zakhor, beautifully conceived and written, is test…
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— Shabbat Zakhor draws its name from the first word of the passage in Deuteronomy (25:17-19) which we read after the completion of the regular parasha: “Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, …
https://www.jtsa.edu/torah/memory-judaisms-lifeblood/
https://www.jtsa.edu/torah/memory-judaisms-lifeblood/
Claim 5: “The writer is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) and a professor of European studies and international relations in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.”
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Two independent cross-references from Jpost explicitly state that the writer is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Wikipedia confirms the existence of the JPPI.
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— Yedidia Stern (Hebrew: ידידיה שטרן; born 13 March 1955) is an Israeli jurist and legal scholar. He is an emeritus professor of law at Bar Ilan University and the president and CEO of the Jewish People…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yedidia_Stern
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— The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI; Hebrew: המכון למדיניות העם היהודי; formerly: The Jewish People Policy Planning (JPPPI)) is an Israel-based think tank that produces strategic research and pol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_People_Policy_Institute
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— The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), founded as the Institute of Jewish Affairs, is a London-based research institute and think tank. It specialises in contemporary Jewish affairs. JPR also…
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