Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz

Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz currently serves as Executive Director of Project Ya’aleh V’Yavo, Inc. where he designs cutting edge environmental programs for Jewish youth. The programs, which take place in both the classroom as well as on his farm in southern Vermont, combine Torah and environmental sensibilities, highlighting personal empowerment, sustainability, optimism and fun.He is much sought after internationally as a public speaker . He divides his time between his home in Western Mass and Sweet Whisper Farms, his maple farm in Readsboro, VT, which was featured in the recent book “Jewish Fathers – A Legacy of Love” as “Vermont’s only shomer shabbos, organic, horse-powered maple farm” as well as in Jewish communities throughout the country as a scholar/artist in residence.