Eli Benedict

Born and raised in a Hasidic family in B'nai B'rak, Eli Benedict is now a secular Hasid, a Yiddish activist, a leader in Yung Yiddish and YO-Yiddish Ort. He is a researcher with the UCL Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish research project and teaches Yiddish for the Swedish Federation for Yiddish. Eli is also an actor and a dancer and teaches courses on Hasidic/Jewish dance.