Youth Directors
Shoshana and Yaakov Schreier serve as the YIOZ youth directors. Shoshana grew up an integral part of the Great Neck Synagogue youth department, leading preschool groups at a young age before spending 2 years as the youth director at Congregation Ramat Orah in the city. She attended Michlalah for seminary before graduating from Touro College in the BA/MD Pathways program and plans to attend medical school in the future. Yaakov was a gabbai and integral part of the Young Israel of Woodmere teen minyan and has spent multiple summers working in Camp Kaylie and at NCSY Kollel. He studied at Yeshivat Shaalvim before studying accounting at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business and now works as an Accountant at River Edge Advisors. Shoshana and Yaakov can be reached at youth@yioz.org.
Rabbinic Intern
Aiden Englander serves as YIOZ's rabbinic intern. He is currently a second-year semikha student at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and is also pursuing an MA in Jewish History and Philosophy at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School.
After graduating high school, Aiden spent two years at Yeshivat Hakotel, where he developed a strong passion for Torah study and teaching. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Jewish Studies from Columbia University. During his time there, he was a board member of the Orthodox community, Yavneh, and continues to teach a weekly Gemara class. In his free time, Aiden enjoys reading, hiking, and cooking. He and his wife, Dana, live on the Upper West Side and are delighted to be a part of the YIOZ community. Aiden can be reached at aidenrenglander@gmail.com.
Administrator
Yiscah Ejdelman serves as YIOZ's Administrator. After being bat mitzavhed in a Reform congregation, Yiscah didn’t spend much time in synagogues during her early adult years. Her journey to reconnect with Judaism began on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Inspired by her students’ relationship to their cultural and spiritual heritage, Yiscah returned to the East Coast and then later Israel to study yiddishkeyt, Yiddish, and Hebrew. She studied at Nishmat and Pardes, learned Hebrew in ulpan, and was immersed in Yiddish at the Yiddish Farm in Goshen, NY. Yiscah uses Yiddish professionally as a program coordinator for Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish, and was one of the founders of Enga Benga Land, a Yiddish-immersion nursery program. She married into a YIOZ family is raising her three children in North Riverdale. Yiscah can be reached at office@yioz.org.