David Wietchner is the Director of AI Research and Content at M², where he develops advanced skills, agents, and content capabilities for JewishPro. His work brings together Jewish scholarship, educational thought, and artificial intelligence to create rigorous and useful tools for the Jewish organizational world.
Before joining M², David served as Research Coordinator and Journal Manager at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Kogod Research Center and as the OU Campus Rabbi at the University of Chicago. Throughout his career, David has studied, taught, and written about Jewish texts and ideas across academic, educational, and rabbinic settings.
David submitted his doctoral dissertation in philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, examining God and revelation at the boundary between phenomenology and theology. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Orthodox rabbinical ordination.
David lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.