LimmudFest 2013 | Limmud Atlanta + SE

We're back again with LimmudFest’s own version of TED Talks -- in which passionate and creative Limmudniks share insights, experiences, discoveries, and Jewish ideas worth spreading. We're calling these high impact, tightly crafted 18 minute presentations, CHAI Talks. We've invited interesting some of Limmud's most creative thinkers to give “the Jewish talk of their life.” 

Novelist Joseph Skibell will be reading from his prize-winning novels, including A Blessing on the Moon and the forthcoming My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things.

Although a mis-quotation of Theodor Adorno, this question is worth bearing in mind during this session’s screening and discussion of Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955). Is ethical filmmaking possible when dealing with the Holocaust as subject matter? How might the answers to this question change when different modes of narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking are employed? How specifically does Alain Resnais mediate this problem? More broadly, are certain stylistic techniques more or less appropriate and/or effective in approaching the Holocaust?

Sharing the research from a book manuscript in progress this lecture will center on the recent popularity of Israeli television formats or programming concepts in the U.S. Grounding the analysis in historical and contemporary contexts the session will explore the way Israeli television, founded in the late 1960 as a single-channel Statist (Mamlakhti) public service transformed in the last two decades into a robust, commercial industry, with emerging international capacities in a new, more globalized media landscape. Focusing more specifically on the biggest Israeli hit in the U.S. to date, Showtime's "Homeland," and on the original Israeli series it has been adapted from "Hatufim" (Prisoners of War), the session will contemplate the new level of Israeli-U.S. cultural exchange marked by such adaptations.

Jewish organizations are TERRIBLE at using the internet! In this session, internet entrepreneur and rabbinical student Patrick Aleph will show you how to use the internet to improve your Jewish organization or synagogue. This crash course will teach you everything from website design, best practices, social media, content writing and much more. Whether you know nothing about websites or are a web master, this class is for you.

We're back again with LimmudFest’s own version of TED Talks -- in which passionate and creative Limmudniks share insights, experiences, discoveries, and Jewish ideas worth spreading. We're calling these high impact , tightly crafted 18 minute presentations CHAI Talks, and we've invited interesting some of Limmud's most creative thinkers to give “the Jewish talk of their life.”