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With antisemitism and unspeakable violence in Israel-Palestine forcing the American Jewish community to wrestle deeply with questions of identity and solidarity, the need for future-oriented conversations is clear. But how do we go about having them? Scholarship, art and aesthetics, strategic foresight, and ritual development all give us different tools through which we can begin to construct generative and imaginative frameworks of a Jewish future. Over the course of three weeks, we will explore some of these tools together, placing the work of Judeo-futurism in the context of Afrofuturism and other indigenous futurisms as well as traditional future-oriented Jewish liturgy. We will examine Jewish thinkers and leaders who are doing Judeofuturist work right now. And ultimately, we will get to practice types of Judeofuturist thinking and planning in an experimental community together around a shared focal topic of a common future impacted by climate relocation.