Event: Taste of Limmud NY in Downtown Manhattan
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 7-9pm
Place: Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place, New York City
Admission: $10 minimum donation
RSVP: Click here.
Details:
“Join us for an exciting evening of learning and shmoozing. Text. Food. Comics. Midrash. Living history. Whatever your interest, it’s all here under one roof.
See your friends from Limmud NY 2010 and get a taste of the Limmud NY-style learning you’ve been missing!
Plus, enjoy your first chance to get involved in planning Limmud NY 2011.
Sessions at the Taste of Limmud NY in Downtown Manhattan
The Search for Josef Mengele
with David Marwell, Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage and former Chief of Investigative Research at the U.S. Department of Justice
One Language: Chavruta Text Study (Paired Learning)
with Jennifer Krause, rabbi and author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time
Highlights of the Museum Exhibition Tour
with docents from the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Reading Between the Lines, Panels, Pictures and Verses: Discover the Relationship Between Midrash, Bibliodrama and Comic Books
with David Wolkin, educator at Congregation Emanu-El and performer
Food for Thought: The New Jewish Food Movement
with Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz, educator at Hazon and contributor to the blog The Jew and the Carrot
For full descriptions, click here.
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 
Wow, Limmud NY was just last month and it's starting up with Tastes for 2011 already? I notice the $10 charge: I suppose to help get the funds that you need before registration money comes in. Great idea that I'll pass to our Chicago “steering wheel” team….after they have time for a little rest from our event just yesterday.
Yesterday, I spent from 8am-10pm at the first ever Limmud Chicago and I had a fantastic time. I went to some enlightening and thought-provoking learning sessions and got to do a fair amount of schmoozing with different people, some of whom I happen to have other contacts with but Limmud gave us the perfect venue to interact in a particular Jewish context.
There were a few minor snags, but overall it was great. Good enough that I'm confident that there will be a Limmud Chicago 2011 which will likely be even bigger and better. Kind of like the “Tastes of Limmud” our new little Limmud makes me wonder if maybe my husband and I can get over to the big UK Limmud some day.
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