LimmudFest Nola 2023: Full Schedule

LimmudFest is back in person for a weekend of celebrating, learning, and doing Jewish.

LimmudFest New Orleans is a weekend festival of Jewish learning, arts, culture and spirituality featuring 70+ sessions from local, regional and national presenters. It is part of a global movement inspired by the idea that when Jews from diverse backgrounds come together to celebrate and learn about everything and anything Jewish, the entire community is enriched.

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2:15pm CDT

From the Seder Table to Cafe Du Monde

The seder table is filled with reminders of the slavery of Egypt. Interestingly, Cafe Du Monde (CDM), founded in 1862, also got its start in 19th-century slave days. Is there a link between the institution of CDM and the seder table? Come learn not only what that link is but also how certain ways of survival adopted by our ancestors actually allowed us to mitigate some of the aftereffects of slavery in ways that 19th-century African Americans could only dream of.

Speakers

Scott Hoffman

Rabbi Scott Hoffman is rabbi of Shir Chadash in Metairie. A rabbi for more than thirty years, he has served congregations in the New York, Philadelphia, and the Washington, DC, area. Rabbi Hoffman has served as a nursing home chaplain, hospice chaplain and adjunct professor of Talmud... Read More →

Saturday March 18, 2023 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
Congregation Gates of Prayer Board Room

Southern Jewish Life, Jewish Holidays

LimmudFest Nola 2023

2:15pm CDT

Scott Hoffman

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