Eli Rubenstein is National Director of the March of the Living, an annual educational program that gathers thousands of Jewish youth from around the world in Poland and Israel to mark two of the most significant dates in the modern Jewish calendar, and the Director of Education for the March of Remembrance and Hope, an educational initiative for college and university students of diverse faiths and ethnic backgrounds to teach the consequences of hatred and prejudice through the study of the Holocaust. He is also the editor of a collection of poetry, prose, and art on the Holocaust. "For You Who Died I Must Live On," was awarded a Canadian Jewish Book Award.

Eli has been involved in Polish-Jewish dialogue with the Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies In Montreal since 1995.