About
The Challenge
Jewish communities are navigating profound change. Emerging technologies, climate disruption, geopolitical shifts, and democratic instability are reshaping how people gather, practice, and belong. Meeting this moment requires moving beyond short-term thinking toward long-range, generational futures.
Too often, Jewish communal imagination gets stuck in two limiting frames: looking backward toward preserving the past, or focusing solely on fear-based survival narratives when envisioning the future. Both approaches make it difficult to build shared, generative visions of flourishing.
While artists, scholars, community organizers, spiritual and cultural workers are already experimenting with new forms of ritual, identity, and collective life – and have been for millenia – this work remains largely fragmented and disconnected across sectors and regions. This prevents practitioners and leaders from recognizing and investing in the collaborative infrastructure needed to sustain and amplify this work.
Our Vision and Mission
The Judeofuturism Project is a multidisciplinary initiative supporting Jewish futures rooted in imagination, resilience, and collective thriving.
We ask: What becomes possible beyond survival? How can communities think long-term? And what can Jewish wisdom offer a world in transformation?
The Judeofuturism Project believes Jewish communities have always been futures-builders. Our mission is to recover, practice, and amplify that capacity, connecting the people, tools and ideas needed to strengthen our infrastructure of imagination for this moment and beyond.
Our Approach
We work across three interconnected areas:
Art &
Storytelling
We are inviting US Jewish artists to participate in the creation of an interactive installation in Fall 2026 imagining different facets of vibrant, pluralistic, and connected US Jewish life in 2070, two thousand years after the fall of the Second Temple. This exhibit will serve as a tangible touchstone for programming, performances, and workshops – enabling community members and diverse stakeholders to articulate shared visions across differences. Learn more about the exhibit here.
Scholarship & Frameworks
We develop and uplift research, ritual, and methodologies that ground Judeofuturism as a rigorous practice. You can listen to Becca Leviss talk about some of this work on Judaism Unbound and keep an eye out for more public-facing scholarship soon!
Convening &
Strategy
We lead workshops and facilitate trainings for various cross-disciplinary cohorts of organizers, artists, clergy, scholars, and community leaders to help diverse stakeholders co-create imagined visions for US Jewish communities on long-term time horizons. We have worked with a broad spectrum of organizations, including Judaism Unbound's UnYeshiva, Lehrhaus House of Learning in Boston, the Conference for Small Town Jewish Life, The Shalom Center, Rabbis for Ceasefire, and developed a future-oriented leadership training for The Jewish Education Project.
Leadership
Becca Leviss is a Jewish futurist, organizer, and facilitator working at the intersection of culture, religion, and long-term futures. She is the founder and director of The Judeofuturism Project, where she focuses on strengthening and connecting collective visions for vibrant, pluralistic Jewish life.
Her work draws on theory, history, literature, and ritual to explore how communities build power, belonging, and imagination across generations. Becca designs and facilitates workshops, curates experiences, and develops frameworks that help communities reorient beyond short-term, fear-based narratives towards collective thriving.
Becca holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where her research focused on religion, ethics, politics, and future-oriented community building. She has previously worked in democracy advocacy, philanthropy strategy, and leadership education, and continues to collaborate across disciplines as a connector, gatherer, and persistent big-and-small question asker. She received her Bachelor’s in Sociology and Research Analysis from Tufts University, where she worked on civic and philanthropic engagement with Tisch College of Civic Life.
Get Involved
The Judeofuturism Project is part of a growing ecosystem transcending geography and generation. This work depends on artists, organizers, scholars, educators, funders, technologists, and curious community members invested in expansive long-term Jewish futures.
If you’re interested in collaborating, sharing work, hosting a conversation, contributing ideas, or staying connected to what’s emerging, we’d love to hear from you.