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Friday
, March 16
Bart Room, Gates of Prayer
6:15pm •
Conservative Shabbat Kabbalat Service
Lake Library, Gates of Prayer
6:15pm •
Orthodox Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Manheim Auditorium, Gates of Prayer
7:30pm •
Shabbat Dinner
Memorial Area, Gates of Prayer
5:00pm •
Registration
Room 1, Gates of Prayer
6:15pm •
Transition into Shabbat Through Prayer, Song, and Dance
Room 8, Gates of Prayer
6:00pm •
Babysitting for Ages 0-3
Sanctuary, Gates of Prayer
6:15pm •
Reform Kabbalat Shabbat Service
8:45pm •
Shabbat Tisch
Saturday
, March 17
Adult Lounge, Gates of Prayer
12:45pm •
The Incredible Og and Why You Can't Trust a Giant
2:00pm •
Caring for the Dead: Why Do I Need a Chevra Kadisha?
3:15pm •
Jewish Food Politics: Whatever Happened to the Hekhsher Tzedek?
4:30pm •
Government Power: Mixed Feelings on Kingship in the Hebrew Bible
Bart Room, Gates of Prayer
10:00am •
Reform Shabbat Morning Service
12:45pm •
The Spirituality of Changing Your Mind: A Jewish Approach to Solid Fluidity
2:00pm •
The Power of One in a World Made by Duke: Why Confronting Hate is More Important than Ever
3:15pm •
Kabbalah and Ecology: Creating a World Where All Beings Are Respected and the World Is Cherished
4:30pm •
They Like Us! They Really Like Us? Christian Zionism in the South
Board Room, Gates of Prayer
12:45pm •
The State of Their Hate: Anti-Semitism in 2018 and What We Are Doing to Combat It
2:00pm •
What Is This Thing We Call Spirituality?
3:15pm •
“The Pen of the Soul”: Jewish Melodies and Niggunim
Grant Board Room, JCC
8:30pm •
Shalom Y’All: A Documentary on Southern Jewish Life
9:45pm •
Rebbetzin Disco
Lake Library, Gates of Prayer
9:00am •
Orthodox Shabbat Morning Service
12:45pm •
Rapture, Antichrist, 666, Armageddon: Explaining Southern Evangelical Theology
2:00pm •
Is Life “All for Nothing”? Exploring Ecclesiastes
3:15pm •
Qu’ran and Torah: Closer than You Think
4:30pm •
Our Forgotten Brothers and Sisters: Tales from Behind Bars
Manheim Auditorium, Gates of Prayer
11:45am •
Shabbat Lunch for Everyone
5:45pm •
Seudah Shlishit: The Third Shabbat Meal
Mintz Auditorium, JCC
8:00pm •
Welcome and Havdalah
8:30pm •
Live Concert
Room 1, Gates of Prayer
9:00am •
Traditional Jewish Renewal Davvening
12:45pm •
Keeping Kosher in a Creole and Cajun World
2:00pm •
Reclaiming and Reaffirming Zionism as a Progressive Cause
3:15pm •
Taking Leave: Our Evolving Relationship with the Departed
4:30pm •
In Search of the Male Shiksa: One Millennial Jew’s Tale of Interfaith and Interracial Dating
Room 12, Gates of Prayer
12:45pm •
This Year in Jerusalem: Trump's Announcement, Middle East Policies, and Their Impact on U.S.-Israel Relations and the International Community
2:00pm •
The Mikvah and You (Yes, You!)
4:30pm •
Judaism and Vegetarianism - The Real vs the Ideal
Room 13, Gates of Prayer
12:45pm •
Supervised Free Play for Ages 7 and Up
3:15pm •
Prep for Jewish Summer Camp
4:30pm •
Supervised Free Play for Ages 7 and Up
Room 2, Gates of Prayer
12:45pm •
“The Home”: The Institution that Put NOLA on the Jewish Map
2:00pm •
Helping Children with Disabilities Deal with Grief and Other Challenges
3:15pm •
Sanctuary: An Interfaith Response to Supporting Immigrants
4:30pm •
The Holocaust 70 Plus Years On: What Have We Learned?
Room 3, Gates of Prayer
10:30am •
Mini-Minyan
12:45pm •
Sh’ma Yisrael: The Jewish Declaration of the Unity of All Teaching, Dialogue, and Experience
2:00pm •
Ghosts & Shadows: The Women Who Haunt The Talmud
3:15pm •
Making Peace Where There Is Strife: A Jewish Look at De-Stressing
4:30pm •
Who (Exactly) Art Thou? Getting to Know God
Room 8, Gates of Prayer
9:00am •
Babysitting for Ages 0-3
12:45pm •
Babysitting for Ages 0-3
Room 9, Gates of Prayer
10:30am •
A Cup of Fun: Adding Joy to Your Holiday Traditions (Shabbat Version)
12:45pm •
Shabbat Sing-a-Long with Miss Tory
2:00pm •
Israeli Dancing for Kids, Acoustic Version
4:30pm •
Supervised Free Play for Ages 4-6
Sanctuary, Gates of Prayer
9:00am •
Conservative Shabbat Morning Service
12:45pm •
How to Have a Super Seder this Pesach
2:00pm •
Torah Tanzen: Roadmaps to the Heart
3:15pm •
I and Thou: Creating a 21st Century Jewish Sexual Ethic
4:30pm •
"The Enigma of the Torah": A Staged Reading
Sunday
, March 18
Art Room, JCC
9:00am •
Free Association Doodling: Drawing on the Jewish Roots of Dada
10:15am •
Visioning Creation through Collage: A Hands-On Workshop
11:30am •
Women and Watercolors
1:30pm •
Weaving Together Our Stories: A Hands-on Workshop
2:45pm •
Creation and Destruction: Experimenting with Clay
4:00pm •
Passover Paperart
Cafe Area, JCC
9:00am •
I Am the Story! Inside a Jewish Folktale
10:15am •
A Camp Sing-Along
Dance Studio, JCC
9:00am •
Torah Scrolls Have a Life of Their Own: The Perilous Journey of the Torah Scroll MST-501
10:15am •
Swords Into Plowshares: Building Partnerships Between Jewish and Arab Citizens of Israel
11:30am •
#MeToo – A Jewish Response?
1:30pm •
Game of Thrones: Biblical Style
2:45pm •
Judaism, Racism, and a Sense of Justice: When the Law Is Used Against the Jews
4:00pm •
The Four Questions of Passover (Or, Why is This Limmud Session Different From Every Other Session?)
Front Desk, JCC
10:00am •
Tour of the New JCC Facility
1:15pm •
Tour of the New JCC Facility
2:30pm •
Tour of the New JCC Facility
Grant Board Room, JCC
9:00am •
Guns ‘n (Ha)Roses: Experiences of a Jewish FBI Agent
11:30am •
The Cool Jews of the Smithsonian's American Cool Exhibit
1:30pm •
The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper (and the Group’s Little Known Jewish Connections)
2:45pm •
"Transparent" Revealed: What Can This Multi-Award-Winning TV Series Teach Us About Jewish Life, Sexuality and Israel?
4:00pm •
Under the Big Top: Jews in the Circus, Burlesque, and the Variety Arts
Hallway, JCC
1:00pm •
Booksigning with Limmud Authors
Jewish Community Center
8:30am •
Registration
Kitchen, JCC
9:00am •
Let's Make Streudel Together
2:45pm •
You Knead This! Challah: A Doughy Discussion
Library, JCC
10:15am •
Krauss: The New Orleans Value Store
11:30am •
"Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue": Judges, Courts, Partiality and Due Justice
1:30pm •
Jerusalem Dreams
2:45pm •
The Auschwitz Classroom: Learning, Teaching and Understanding Empathy and Coexistence in 20th-Century Poland
4:00pm •
What Could Have Been: A Discussion of Women in Judaism
Mind Body Studio, JCC
2:45pm •
Yoga for the Soul
4:00pm •
Yoga for Kids Ages 6 and Up
Mintz Auditorium, JCC
9:00am •
A Taste of Teamwork
10:15am •
Nurture the Wow: Parenting as a Spiritual Practice
12:30pm •
Lunch
2:45pm •
Klezmer: Jewish Jazz?
4:00pm •
Oy Vay! Ole!: Jewish Traces in Flamenco
5:00pm •
A Reprise of LimmudFest 2018: Closing Program
Older Adult Lounge, JCC
9:00am •
From Iran to China: How World's Events are Changing Israel and the Middle East
10:15am •
Are Jews White?
11:30am •
Not Your Zayde’s Pastrami on Rye: New Jewish Food Entrepreneurs of New Orleans
1:30pm •
Politics and Prophets, Then and Now
2:45pm •
Praying and Paying: The Marginal Cost of Being Jewish
4:00pm •
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory through Today: Jews and the Labor Movement
Pasternack Family Gymnasium, JCC
10:15am •
Connecting to Stillness Through Ritual
11:30am •
Fly Circus Space Circus Arts Workshop
1:30pm •
Game On!
2:45pm •
Israeli Dancing for Kids
2:45pm •
Game On!
4:00pm •
Game On!
Room 129a, JCC
9:00am •
Babysitting for Ages 0-3
1:30pm •
Babysitting for Ages 0-3
Room 129b, JCC
9:00am •
Music with Meryl
10:15am •
Games Jewish Children Played Long Ago
11:30am •
Thoughtful Tots: Mindfulness for Children
1:30pm •
A Cup of Fun: Adding Joy to Your Holiday Traditions
2:45pm •
Let's Make a Spring Craft for Ages 6 and Up
4:00pm •
PJ Library Passover Fun
Room 202a, JCC
9:00am •
What Is Jewish Art?
10:15am •
We’re All in this Together: Creating a Full Culture of Inclusion
11:30am •
Secrets of the Jewish Calendar
1:30pm •
From “Jew vs. Jew” to “Me and You”: Working Toward Pluralism
2:45pm •
Tikkun Olam and Community Development in New Orleans: Case Studies from Natives and Newcomers
4:00pm •
A World of EnCHANTment: Comparing Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu Chants
Room 202b, JCC
9:00am •
Strengths of the Soul: Finding Your Soul Powers
10:15am •
Ethics in Government: What Jewish Sources Tell Us
11:30am •
Reformulating 'Jesus & the Jews' over the Centuries: Persistent Failures of the 'Cafeteria' Approach'"
1:30pm •
Best Practices in Inclusive Congregational School Education
2:45pm •
Teaching Life Skills As a Strategy for Classroom Management
Room 208, JCC
9:00am •
Help Me Design the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
10:15am •
Co-Write a Song with Distant Cousins
11:30am •
Expansive Prayer: Queering Our Concept of Blessings and Prayer
1:30pm •
Don't Protest Alone: Moving Jewish Institutions to Save the Environment
2:45pm •
23 and Us: Jews, Genes, and Identity
Room 209, JCC
9:00am •
Rending Cloth and Heart: Tearing and Tears
10:15am •
Once Upon Our Stories
11:30am •
To Worry or Not to Worry? Jewish Parenting in a Complicated World
1:30pm •
Who's Your Abba? A How-To on Tracing your European Ancestors
2:45pm •
Hidden in the Hagaddah: Exploring the Puzzles of Pesach
TBA
10:15am •
Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway – A Centennial Celebration
Youth Activities Lounge, JCC
9:00am •
Beyond Animal Rights: Making Sense of the Best Relationships We Can Have with Animals
10:15am •
You Jew You
11:30am •
Israel Delegitimization & BDS: What You Need to Know
1:30pm •
The Disarming Power of Narrative: How Storytelling Can Transform our Conversations about Israel
2:45pm •
Resilience in the Face of Chronic Trauma: Lessons from Israel
4:00pm •
Spirituality, Trauma, and Resilience
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Art Room, JCC
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Hallway, JCC
Jewish Community Center
Kitchen, JCC
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Mind Body Studio, JCC
Mintz Auditorium, JCC
Older Adult Lounge, JCC
Pasternack Family Gymnasium, JCC
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Room 129a, JCC
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Room 202a, JCC
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, March 16
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, March 17
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, March 18
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Art Room, JCC
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Board Room, Gates of Prayer
Cafe Area, JCC
Dance Studio, JCC
Front Desk, JCC
Grant Board Room, JCC
Hallway, JCC
Jewish Community Center
Kitchen, JCC
Lake Library, Gates of Prayer
Library, JCC
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Memorial Area, Gates of Prayer
Mind Body Studio, JCC
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Older Adult Lounge, JCC
Pasternack Family Gymnasium, JCC
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Youth Activities Lounge, JCC
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