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ADAMAH Staff

Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh, Director of ADAMAH
Anna Stevenson Hanau, Associate Director of ADAMAH
Miriam Feiner, Lead Pickler
Ellie Lobovits, Farm Manager
Aitan Mizrachi, Dairy Manager

Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh, Director of ADAMAH
Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh is an environmental studies instructor, Jewish educator, writer, organic farmer and wilderness guide. He has taught environmental studies, ecology, and Judaic Studies at Portland State University, Berkshire Community College, Southern Vermont College and the Wild Rockies Field Institute. Shamu directed, developed curriculum for and taught at the Teva Learning Center in its early years of development. His essays and articles on environmental education, Jewish ethics, and family history have been published in Orion, Tikkun, The Washington Jewish Week, Response, and the anthology Ecology and the Jewish Spirit (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998). Shamu holds an M.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana, a doctorate in Educational Leadership, and studied permaculture design in Costa Rica and in New England. He has directed the ADAMAH Fellowship since 2004. Shamu loves to compost, farm, scavenge, brew biofuels and riff on Jewish learning and ritual.

Anna Stevenson Hanau, Associate Director of ADAMAH
Anna began her work at ADAMAH as the Farm Manager. Prior to that, she worked on a number of projects that connect Jewish tradition with environmental sustainability. She holds a double B.A. from Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she majored in Urban Studies, Environmental Science and Bible Studies (2004). She worked at Hazon for three years as the New York Ride Coordinator and is the co-author of Food for Thought, Hazon's sourcebook on Jews, food and contemporary life. Anna also coordinated the first pilot season of Tuv Ha'Aretz, Hazon's CSA program, and started the Prospect Heights CSA in Brooklyn, NY in 2006. Anna participated in ADAMAH in summer 2007 and joined the faculty in 2008. She was recently listed in Mother Nature Network's 40 Farmers under 40. Her future plans include running an organic CSA farm with her family.

Miriam Feiner, Lead Pickler
Miriam, an ADAMAH alumnae from summer 2006, left ADAMAH at the end of the summer and left her heart in Falls Village, CT. After moving back home to the West Coast for two years, she's back at Isabella Freedman as the Value Added Products Manager. She now spends her time fermenting cukes into pickles and boiling berries down into jam. She is thrilled to be helping the ADAMAH Fellowship become a more sustainable program by creating revenue from pickle sales. One of her favorite parts of the job is experimenting with new products and recipes, and of course doing quality control on the old favorites (read: tasting the pickles and sauerkraut).

Ellie Lobovits, Farm Manager
Before becoming the farm manager at ADAMAH, Ellie worked for two years on a 20-acre organic vegetable farm outside Boston where she learned her farming skills. While there, she managed the summer and winter CSAs and ran an urban farmers market. In between planting, hoeing and harvesting veggies, she discovered that she loves to help reconnect people to the land and to teach people about what it means to farm in a sustainable way. Ellie is excited to be a part of ADAMAH, where she can combine her love of farming, teaching and Judaism, and continue her spiritual practice of tending to the land. Ellie is also a birth doula, a photographer, an occasional poet and an avid listener to the still-small-voice that she can hear when she gets very quiet.

Aitan Mizrahi, Dairy Manager
Aitan began his Adamah career in 2004 as a Fellow. It was at Adamah that Aitan decided that dairy farming was a lifestyle he wanted to live. He returned in 2006 to work with the Maintenance Crew at Isabella Freedman, and simultaneously began his own herd, the Adva Dairy. In 2008, he merged his herd with the Adamah herd, and in 2009, launched the Adamah Dairy, working with the herd full-time, developing our recipes for Holy Chevre, Goatgurt and Falls Village Feta and managing all aspects of herd health and cheese production at Adamah. Prior to Adamah, Aitan worked at Rawson Brook Farm in Massachusstes and Eatwell Farm in California. He's bringing our ancient biblical heritage of animal husbandry to life at Adamah, and loves to see the farm through the fresh eyes of new Adamahniks when they first arrive at the Barnyard.

Visiting Faculty may include

• Ellen Bernstein — Founder, Shomrei Adamah; Author
• Malka Fenyvesi — Jewish Perspectives on Conflict Resolution
• Rabbi Everett Gendler — The "Grandfather" of Jewish Agriculture
• Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
• Rabbi Jill Hammer — Tel Shemesh, NY
• Rabbi David Ingber — Rabbi, Kehilat Romemu, NY
• Etan Mintz — Associate Rabbi, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
• Nigel Savage — Executive Director, Hazon, NY
• Nili Simhai — Director, Teva Learning Center, Millerton, NY
• Rabbi Melissa Weintraub — Co-Founder, Co-Director, Encounter Programs
• Tom Wessels — Professor of Ecology, Antioch University, Antioch, NH
• Ronit Ziv-Krieger — Jewish Educator