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December 20, 2019

Anti-Semitism Breaks Out at a Tony Manhattan Private School, Thanks to Intersectional Indoctrination

After 150 years, an attempt to universalize Judaism hasn’t turned out as expected.

Founded in 1877 by Felix Adler, a German-born American Jew and the son of a prominent rabbi, the Society of Ethical Culture preached a quasi-secular ethical humanism that grew out of Adler’s own attempt to universalize Judaism. The elementary school Adler established—originally intended to cater to the children of the working poor—eventually evolved into the Fieldston School, a highly selective Manhattan private school that sends a number of its graduates to the Ivy League every year.

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