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Elliott Hartstein

May 31, 2024, 6:15 PM

Selective Amnesia and call for Action on Campus Protests

Selective Amnesia and call for Action on Campus Protests Seeing the outbursts and protests on college campuses and recently at high schools as well, is disturbing and makes me fearful for what Jewish students are having to cope with and...

Nov 20, 2023, 2:20 AM

Why I Marched for Israel with Thousands of Others

To those who may ask why I went to Washington with thousands of others to March for Israel, for Release of the Hostages and to Stand up against Anti Semitism the answers are simple. At a time when Israel has...

Jun 4, 2021, 12:44 PM

Post ceasefire: Create stability, avoid provocation, maintain bi-partisan support

The recent Israel – Hamas/Gaza war ceasefire raises and triggers a question to me and many Americans and Jews including those living in our own suburbs – What now ?. Fortunately, through quiet diplomacy, a cease fire was accomplished relatively quickly...

About Me

Elliottt Hartstein is an attorney and a former mayor of Buffalo Grove Illinois, lived in Israel for 3 years when he was young and has been to Israel on numerous Missions, through JUF, through Young Leadership Cabinet and through the Wexner Heritage Foundation and also wrote a regular Op-Ed Colum for the Northbrook Daily Herald and is a long standing member of the Government Affairs Committee of Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and a member JAC.