Morning Coffee with Tiffany Shlain

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10:00 AM
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Morning Coffee with Tiffany Shlain

10am PST


Named by Newsweek as one of the women shaping the 21st century, Tiffany Shlain is a master in the world of technology, cinema, and literature.

An Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, her new mission is to get humanity to take a tech break each week to find more time, creativity, and connection through the transformative practice of turning off screens in what she calls Technology Shabbat.

Find out how this Jewess pioneer is taking our tradition to the modern media world and transforming it, one person at a time. To purchase her book, 24/6, please visit: https://www.24sixlife.com/


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Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and author of the national best-selling book 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection which recently won the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered her one woman “Spoken Cinema” performance Dear Human. She lectures and performs worldwide on the relationship between technology and humanity. Shlain has received over 80 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including selection for the Albert Einstein Foundation’s initiative Genius: 100 Visions for the Future, being on NPR’s list of Best Commencement Speeches, and being named by Newsweek as “one of the women shaping the 21st century."

Her films include her feature documentary Connected: An Autobiography about Love, Death & Technology and The Tribe: The Unorthodox, Unauthorized History of the Barbie Doll and The American Jewish People, The Making of a Mensch and Technology Shabbats.

She has had four premieres at Sundance and the US State Department has showed her films at US embassies around the world. She serves on the Leadership Board of The Center on Media and Child Health at Harvard's Boston Children's Hospital, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

During the pandemic, Tiffany has been writing weekly newsletters, giving online talks, made a film for the election and is hosting a monthly #ZoomChallahBake with special guests and people from all over the world.

For information on her book, baking, films, lectures and her newsletter Breakfast @ Tiffany’s, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Rabbi Sherre Hirsch is the Chief Innovation Officer for American Jewish University. Rabbi Hirsch made headlines as the first female rabbi at Sinai Temple, the largest Conservative congregation on the west coast. She served as Senior Rabbinic Scholar at Hillel International, where she created and developed Hillelwell, an initiative for Hillels worldwide to become the recognized address for preventative mental health. A thought leader on spirituality and religion, Rabbi Hirsch has appeared on the Today Show, ABC News, Extra, and PBS, among other outlets, and has been a contributor to Time.com, Oprah Magazine, the Jewish Journal, the Hollywood Journal, and more. She is the author of “Thresholds, How to Live Fearlessly and Regret Free” (featured in “Hot Type” in Vanity Fair), and “We Plan, God Laughs, What to do When Life Hits You Over the Head” (recognized on Amazon’s Top 100 List). Rabbi Hirsch was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

 

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