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Mary Otts
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LI Talks are coming to Detroit! The program,
which produces videotaped lectures on diverse
Jewish topics and makes them available to a broad
audience online, will be at Repair the World in Detroit’s
Mexicantown district June 18, 19 and 20.
Two Detroiters, Abi Taylor-Abt and Rabbi Dan Horwitz,
are among the 16 presenters, having outshone a much
larger field of applicants.
ELI Talks started as a Jewish version of the TED Talks, a
widely viewed series of short, recorded lectures that grew
out of a 1984 conference on the confluence of technology,
entertainment and design. Major funding for ELI Talks
comes from the AVI CHAI Foundation in New York City.
ELI Talks has been helping to enlighten the worldwide
Jewish community since 2012. The name stands for Jewish
religious engagement (E), Jewish literacy (L) and Jewish
identity (I). The program’s goal, says director Mary Otts
Rubenstein, is to tell stories on a wide variety of Jewish
topics in a compelling way.
“We’re using new-age technology to present old-age
wisdom,” Rubenstein said. “In a sense, we’re creating a
modern digital Gemarah [Talmudic commentary].”
Twice a year the ELI Talks administrators, based in
Chicago, hold a competition for speakers, winnowing a
field of 150 or more applicants to a cohort of about 15.
Over the course of three months, these “ELI Fellows”
research their topics and participate in intensive coaching
on their presentation skills, lecture content or both, from
three ELI Talks professionals.
In addition to the coaching, fellows who don’t live in
the city where the talks are taped receive a stipend to
cover travel costs. After this intense preparation, each ELI
Fellow delivers a 10-minute lecture without notes before
a live audience. A professional Chicago-based production
company, See3 Communications, records the lectures and
makes them available without charge on ELI Talks’ web-
site, www.elitalks.org.
After the taping, ELI staff work with the fellows to
develop their social media messaging skills and strategies
to promote the talk. The fellows also prepare response
pieces or request responses from people they know. “We
like to work on a conversation model, rather than a lec-
ture model,” Rubenstein said.
On the website, the lectures are sorted by dates, speak-
ers and themes, which cover the Jewish spectrum from
arts and culture to education, history, identity, religion,
philanthropy, science and more. The June speakers’ videos
will join the 158 already on the website.
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