LimmudFest 2021 LimmudFest 2021

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Schedule

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Saturday, March 13, 2021

7:00 PM

- CDT

LimmudFest Havdalah

Rabbi Judy Ginsburgh (B'nai Israel)
Rabbi Sydni Rubinstein (Agudath Achim)
Rabbi Barry Weinstein (Temple Sinai, Lake Charles)
Rabbi Todd Silverman (Touro Synagogue)
Happie Hoffman (Temple Israel, Memphis)

Sunday, March 14, 2021

11:00 AM

- CDT

Lagniappe: Full Performances from all LimmudFest 2021 Musicians

Benny Amón & Steve Pistorius (New Orleans Jazz & Ragtime)
Andriu Yanovski
Duo Whatcha Wanna
Panorama Duo (Panorama Jazz Band)
Joshua Starkman

11:20 AM

- CDT

Opening Ceremonies

Panorama Duo (Panorama Jazz Band)
Benny Amón & Steve Pistorius (New Orleans Jazz & Ragtime)
Andriu Yanovski
Joshua Starkman
Leslie Goldberg (Limmud NOLA)
Lonnie Zarum Schaffer (Limmud NOLA)
Duo Whatcha Wanna

12:00 PM

- CDT

Accessibility & Dignity: The Amazing Legacies of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum (London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS))
- CDT

Build Power, Do Justice: An Introduction to Congregation-Based Organizing

Broderick Bagert (Together New Orleans)
- CDT

Buried and Alive: Memory, Commemoration, and Identity in Southern Jewish Cemeteries

Nora Katz (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL))
Dr. Josh Parshall (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL))
- CDT

Making Waves: NOLA's New Mikveh & You

Rabbi Lexi Erdheim (Gates of Prayer Synagogue)
Rabbi Josh Pernick (Beth Israel NOLA)
Jessica Rosenberg (Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network)
Rabbi Bob Loewy (Gates of Prayer Synagogue)
- CDT

Spirit and Justice: Jewish Spiritual tools to deepen our commitments to Justice

Dani Levine (Avodah)
- CDT

Where the 'Vilde Chayes' Are: Maurice Sendak's Creative Jewish Vision

Dr. Golan Moskowitz (Tulane University)

1:00 PM

- CDT

Erasing the Mental Health Stigma

Chloe Deitelzweig (BBYO)
Ben Weiner
Ariel Schwartz
Madison Landau
- CDT

From Flour to Torah: Interpretive Challah Shaping

Vanessa Harper (@lechlechallah)
- CDT

Mizrahi Feminism

Hadar Cohen (Feminism All Night)
- CDT

Pesach in Poetry

Marian Moore
Ellen Steigman
- CDT

Southern Jewish History on One Foot

Nora Katz (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL))
Dr. Josh Parshall (Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL))
- CDT

Israel: Democracy on Life Support - Trying to Find the Pulse of a Nation

Mitchell Barak (KEEVOON Research)

2:30 PM

- CDT

In Quarantine with Anne Frank

Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos (Loyola University of New Orleans)
- CDT

Israel and Our Jewish Values: Where do they mesh? Where do they conflict?

Rabbi Debra Kassoff (Hebrew Union Congregation)
Rabbi David Gerber (Gates of Prayer Synagogue)
Rabbi Yossie Nemes
Lynne Wasserman (Avodah)
- CDT

Noel Coward with a Social Conscience: A Re-discovery of the great Jewish-American Composer Harold Rome

George Dansker
- CDT

Suicide: Why We Should All be Talking About it

Rachel Lazarus Erikson (Jewish Family Services)
Nichole Valenzuela (Jewish Family Services,Teen Life Counts)
Lauren Gehman (Metairie Park Country Day School)
Julie Schwartz (Jewish Family Services,Teen Life Counts)
- CDT

The Jazz Amidah

Rabbi Deborah Silver (Shir Chadash)
Meryl Zimmerman (Shir Chadash)

3:30 PM

- CDT

Art @ Home: Beautifying Pesach

Shoshana Madick (Avodah)
- CDT

Gentle Yoga for All Levels

Dena Borman (Yoga with Dena)
- CDT

Jewish Leadership in Turbulent Times

Aaron Ahlquist (Anti-Defamation League (ADL))
Arnie Fielkow (Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans)
Joseph I. Giarrusso III
- CDT

Mizrahi Cooking for Passover with IMA

Natalie Cohen (IMA)
- CDT

The Torah's Hidden Poetry

Dr. Jason Gaines (Tulane University)