SPEAKERS GUIDE

Adam Berman

Executive Director
The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

307 7th Ave #900
New York, NY 10001-6059
Tel: (212) 242-5586
Tel 2: (860) 824-5991
adam@isabellafreedman.org

Adam Berman currently serves as the Executive Director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, a spiritually vibrant, socially progressive, multigenerational retreat center and community in the Connecticut Berkshires. Adam is also the founder and director of ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship, a three month leadership training program for Jewish young adults that integrates Jewish learning and living with sustainable agriculture, green living skills, teaching and contemplative spiritual practice. For three years, Adam served as the Director of the Teva Learning Center. He holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and an B.A in Environmental Studies from Brown University.

Topics on which qualified to speak:

• Theological / Philosophical Perspectives
• Ethical / Halakhic Perspective
• Ecology and Natural History
• Experiential Jewish Environmental Education
• Jewish Environmental Action
• Green Building / Sustainability

Types of Presentations available for:

• Scholar-in-residence for congregations
• Scholar-in-residence for campus
• Jewish outdoor education programs for youth
• Jewish outdoor education programs for adults
• In-service training program for educators
• Synagogue speaker / sermon
• Campus speaker
• Conference speaker
• Day school / religious school speaker
• Training for Summer Camp Staff