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The school used their own students for eugenic studies producing bias cherry picked results to manufacture stereotypes which negatively portray Jews as being disproportionately more inclined to be carriers of genetic diseases than non-Jews who are also carriers but not as rigorously tested or intentionally targeted in such a way.

Basically, I was told by their faculty and students that Jews need to be saved from the practices of Judaism. However, they had this twisted view of Judaism that conflicted with the Torah as they considered Jews to be endogamic which is a forbidden practice. They also assumed to know who was and wasn't Jewish by DNA due to a popularity contest of genetics from their narrow experiments on their own students. Like the Messianics they assume they know who is Judah and who is Levite but if you ask them for the Ketubahs going back to the time of Moshe to prove it they cannot furnish them to verify the results of their DNA tests.

I wouldn't go to school here. They would chastise Tzipporah like Miriam, tell you that Esther wasn't really Jewish, and then explain how only a fraction of you is actually Jewish according to science unless your ancestors were racial purist due to some perceived bottleneck in the population that doesn't actually align with history.

There are better schools and actual Hebrew schools out there I...

They are terrible at explaining loans, didn't approve my financial until 3 weeks before starting school. If you are not from NYC they don't help with housing or anything. If I didn't pay the deposit I would have went to a different program where they actually help...

I had a great experience there. Some things are not so good there but if you want to get an interesting mix between religious and secular education, this is the right...