ELI Talks's video: Andrew Tamarkin: Responding to Anti Semitism with Open Dialogue

In Fall 2017, ELI Talks partnered with the Silverstein Base Hillel in Chicago to produce the first-ever 'Voices by ELI' - a program that cultivates teen and young adult voices in Jewish communities.Ten speakers selected by Base Hillel worked with ELI Talks to find and hone their inspired Jewish idea. Charles Cohen, Executive Director of Metro Chicago Hillel, emceed the event where three undergraduate students and seven young adult Basers shared 5 minutes of wisdom, to over 60 attendees, on topics ranging from "Politics: It's a Mitzvah", Judaism and Magic: My Conflicting Passions, Good Grief: How the Jewish Mourning Process Can Heal the World and Class and Money in Jewish Spaces: My Story of Exclusion (and Eventual Inclusion). Silverstein Base Hillel is a project of Metro Chicago Hillel. Andrew Tamarkin is a senior global and international studies student at Loyola University Chicago. During his four years in college, he has ventured to make social justice a more prominent element of Jewish life on campus. His roots are both in the United States and Europe; growing up listening to his grandparents’ stories urges him to tell the stories of others. Social justice, the way he sees it, begins by sharing and respecting each others’ stories and then trying to open a dialogue about the injustices we see. Aside from organizing for social justice on Loyola’s Hillel organization, he enjoys traveling and playing piano and sometimes both at the same time. Want to bring Voices to your community? Message us for more information: info (at) elitalks (dot) org.