Naftali Schaechter Ejdelman

Naftali Schaechter Ejdelman is a grandson of the late Yiddish professor Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, and has been teaching Yiddish in a variety of formal and informal contexts since he was in high school. He received a Masters Degree in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and is a licensed teacher in New York and Massachusetts. Naftali helped found the Yiddish Farm Education Center in 2010 and was selected to participate in the ROI Global Community of Jewish Innovators in 2011 and the PresenTense Community Entrepeneur Partnership in 2012. Before founding Yiddish Farm, Naftali worked as a schoolteacher teacher at Beit Rabban and as an environmental educator at the Teva Learning Center and at the Kayam Farm. He was named one of the Jewish Week 36 Under 36 in 2013.