Rabbi Zvika Krieger

Zvika Krieger is the Spiritual Leader of Chochmat HaLev, a progressive spiritual community in Berkeley, CA for embodied prayer and mindfulness, heart-centered connections, and mystical experiences. He is co-founder of Shevet: Jewish Mindfulness Collective and has served in board and leadership positions for Sukkat Shalom/Milk+Honey camp at Burning Man, Jewish Studio Project, DC Minyan, and other organizations dedicated to nourishing the mind, body, and soul.

Zvika has worked on mitigating some of the most damaging impacts of new technologies on individuals and society as Facebook/Meta’s first-ever Director of Responsible Innovation, creating and leading the World Economic Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as the US Department of State’s first-ever “Ambassador to Silicon Valley,” and as a Senior Strategist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has taught courses on design, technology, and social impact at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Zvika previously served as Senior Vice President of the Center for Middle East Peace, an editor and writer at The Atlantic and The New Republic, and was Newsweek’s Middle East correspondent, based in Egypt and Lebanon and covering most of the Arab world. 

He has a BA from Yale University and studied at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion and the American University in Cairo. He is a certified Shadow Work facilitator and Design Thinking facilitator, certified as “God” with “Talk to God”, trained as an ecstatic dance DJ by Embodied Sound, and received rabbinical ordination in the Hassidic lineage. Originally from Los Angeles, Zvika loves to surf, dance, rock climb, and sing karaoke occasionally on-key. He lives in Berkeley with his ten-year-old son. 

Learn more about Zvika at www.zvikakrieger.com and follow him on Instagram at @zkrieger.