Adam Edelman

Adam Jeremy "A. J." Edelman (born March 14, 1991) is an American-born Israeli sliding sports athlete. He is a seven-time Israeli National Champion in sliding sport (skeleton and Bobsleigh) who competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Edelman is the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter Olympics, and the first Orthodox Jewish man to compete in either Olympic iteration. Edelman is training for the 2026 Beijing Olympic Games and program general manager for the Israel bobsled team. Biography Adam Edelman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was raised in a Zionist, Modern Orthodox home by parents Cheryl (a lawyer) and Elazer Edelman (a biomedical engineer, physician, professor, and inventor). He is the middle of three boys. His elder brother is comedian Alex Edelman who helped found Off the Wall Comedy in Jerusalem. Edelman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was a member of the MIT Men's hockey team and a staff editorial columnist for the MIT newspaper, The Tech. MIT President Rafael Reif's 2018 commencement address used Edelman's Olympic journey as a basis of his message to the graduating class. Edelman immigrated to Israel in 2016 and trained at Wingate Institute. He is a dual American-Israeli citizen. He is an MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management.