Do you want to connect with other Jews in their 20s-30s who are passionate about making an impact in the world?
Join us to chat and hear from global development leaders across the world about Jewish responses to exile and refuge.
In the final of a three part series looking at key issues of Jewish global social responsibility, we will be tying into the themes of the festival of Sukkot. Join our panel of experts, including Ilan Cohn (Director of HIAS Europe), Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg (Queer Jewish educator-activist) and Amy Weiss (Director of Jewish Communal Engagement and Learning) to learn and discuss how Jewish organisations are meeting the challenge of providing shelter for those fleeing disaster and persecution around the world.
Ilan Cohn is based in Brussels and is the Director of HIAS Europe. For the past two decades he worked on migration at the international level through a number of intergovernmental organizations, as well as through JDC’s Centre for International Migration and Integration in Israel.
Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg is an American-Canadian-Israel Queer Jewish educator-activist . Elliot teaches and advocates on topics relating to Jewish pluralism and inclusion, refugee rights, LGBTQ rights and human rights, and his educator-activist approach focuses on the application of Judaism for social change. Elliot is a senior educator at BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change and co-chair of Right Now: Advocates for Asylum Seekers in Israel. Elliot is a blogger for The Times of Israel, and has published in Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Week, and elsewhere. Elliot holds a B.A. from McGill University and an M.A. in Jewish Education and in Jewish Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Elliot currently lives in Jaffa .
Amy Weiss is originally from Boston and is currently based in Washington, DC. She has worked in experiential and informal Jewish Education for 13 years, focused on service learning and social justice programming. Amy has worked extensively with global Jewish organizations through her work with Hillel. She earned her BA in Political Science from The George Washington University, a Graduate Certificate in Jewish Communal Service from The Baltimore Hebrew Institute and spent two years studying at The Pardes Institute of Studies in Jerusalem. Amy enjoys reading, cooking and spending time with her husband and two daughters.
