Shalom Hartman Institute scholars participated in the recent Limmud LA conference, a weekend-long "festival" of Jewish learning in Los Angeles. Click here and here to read about the festival. Participating Hartman scholars were Ariel Picard, Renana Ravitzky Pilzer, and Stuart Schoffman.   Ariel's sessions were titled: A Jewish and Democratic State: Is It Really Possible? Religious Freedom in Israel: A Global Jewish Priority Jewish Education in Secular Israel: Challenges and Achievements A Rabbinic Theory of Education A paper of Ariel's distributed at the conference, titled, "Israeli Conversion," received a great deal of attention. It is available on the Institute website by clicking here. Click here to read an article about the session commenting on Ariel's presentation on religious pluralism in Israel.   Stuart's sessions were titled:  Israel in the Movies Pluralism and the Jewish Personality Why Israel Matters Peace and Truth in the Jewish Tradition Renana's sessions were titled: Jacob's Ladder and Plato’s Cave Can Prayer Heal? The Romantic Triangle: The Scholar, His Wife and the Torah Fact and Fantasy in Jewish Education