Introducing the Spring 2015 ELI Talks Speakers
Speaking on June 16th as part of a night entitled “Jewish Life and Learning:”
- Rabbi, educator, and technologist Charlie Schwartz: “Listening to the God You Don’t Believe In”
- Rabbi and Gratz College Professor of Education Joshua Gutoff: “Talmud and the Moral Imagination”
- Rabbi and psychotherapist Arielle Hanien: “This is Your Brain on Ritual”
- Doctor of emergency medicine and communal leader Michael Slater: “Living Jewishly Means Dying Jewishly”
- Game designer and avocational geneticist Shmuel Glassenberg: “The Jewish (Genetic) Story”
- Comedian and Jewish teen professional Pamela Schuller: “Comedy, Disability, and the Inclusive Synagogue”
Speaking on June 17th as part of the “Resilient Jewish Communities” night:
- Author Allison Fine: “Your Values are Showing: Aligning Jewish Organizations for the Social Age”
- Congregational educator Nancy Parkes: “Igniting Change in Congregational Learning”
- Jewish professional and educator Ilana Kaufman: “Who Counts? Race and the Jewish Future”
- University student and founder of Knock Knock Give a Sock Adina Lichtman: “The Circle of Light: Doing Good Jewishly”
- Rabbi and communal leader Jessy Gross: “The New Wanderers: God, Millennials, and Jewish Engagement”
Speaking on June 18th for a night of “New Jewish Culture:”
- Dancer, choreographer, and educator Lin Batsheva Kahn: “Attach to the Divine and Leap: Creativity and the Yetzer Tov”
- Poet and communal leader David Silverman: “Abraham and Isaac: Parenting and Poetry in a Dangerous World”
- Singer-songwriter and educator Sarah Aroeste: “Sephardic Culture is Jewish Culture”
- Rabbi and author Simcha Weinstein: “Super in Spandex (And Not): The Jewish Lives of Comic Book Heroes”
- Actor, educator, and chef Simon Feil: “Eating Meat?: Empathy as the Foundation of a Moral World”
Tickets are available for individuals and groups to join the studio audience. Organizations and media outlets interested in partnering on the event and/or the videos should contact Miriam Brosseau, ELI Talks Program Director: miriam at see3 dot com.
The first videos from this round of talks are slated for release in August, 2015.