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ADAMAH Staff
Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh, Director of Adamah
Sarah Chandler, Associate Director of Adamah
Janna Berger, Farm Manager
Aitan Mizrachi, Dairy Manager
Adam SaNogueira, Value-Added Products Business Manager
Sam Plotkin, Pickle Apprentice
Mira Schwartz, Field Apprentice
Glenn Katz, Dairy Apprentice
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.
Sarah Chandler, Associate Director of Adamah
Sarah Chandler is a Jewish experiential educator, community activist, spiritual leader, and blogger. Most recently, Sarah has served as the Director of Jewish Family Life & Learning (JoyFuLL) at West End Synagogue in Manhattan. She has her M.A. in Jewish Communal and Experiential Education and Hebrew Bible from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and has been an educator with the Teva Learning Center since 2003.
Janna Berger, Farm Manager
Janna fell in love with the nuance, humanism and joy of sustainable agriculture six years ago and has had dirty knees ever since. She has been a farm intern in Illinois, an assistant farmer and head flower farmer in Washington state, a farmhand in Texas, a garden volunteer in south India, a flower manager in Massachusetts and a veggie co-manager in Wisconsin. She is very excited to join the wonderful folks at Adamah who have also discovered the soulfulness and impact of farming.
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.
Adam SaNogueira, Value-Added Products Business Manager
Eager to build upon the incredible products already offered by Adamah, Adam draws on his years of experience as a professional chef. Adam completed his first apprenticeship in a kitchen during his senior year of high school; since then, cooking has taken him through a variety of food service establishments. At a Michelin star restaurant in Italy—where preserving food for the winter was a major focus in autumn—he first grasped the importance of and superior quality resulting from using local, seasonal products. He is particularly interested in working toward sustainable growth in the developing world through models utilizing traditional food techniques. Adam holds his B.A. in Social and Historical Studies and an M.S. in Global Finance, both from The New School.
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
