Inside America’s First-Ever Classical Jewish School
Emet Classical Academy aims to blend the study of the Torah with a rich liberal arts program steeped in the Western tradition. (Rod Morata/Michael Priest Photography)
New York City parents are pulling their kids out of elite academies to enroll them in a school that promises no phones and the Pledge of Allegiance.
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On Sunday, about forty students, aged 10 to 14, were seated front and center at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on the Upper West Side. Everyone in a navy blazer. Boys in ties and button-down shirts. Girls in blue dresses.
These kids are the guinea pigs at Emet Classical Academy—the first Jewish classical school in the country, which aims to blend t…
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