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‘He grew up in a privileged neighborhood and attended one of the most privileged schools in the nation as a young man,’ said the GOP nominee, a Christian nationalist
Shapiro grew up in Dresher, a community of about 5,000 people in Montgomery County, north of Philadelphia. He went to the Forman Hebrew Day School and Akiba Hebrew Academy, now known as Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.
CNN host Jake Tapper, a fellow Akiba alumnus, said Thursday on his show that the school could be called “privileged” because it’s a private school, but added: “I don’t think I have ever heard Mr. Mastriano describe any other Pennsylvania parochial school in that way.”
Tapper said that when he studied at Akiba in the 1980s, a lot of students received financial aid, including “a lot of kids who, with their parents, had escaped antisemitism in the Soviet Union and were trying to build better lives for themselves in the Philadelphia area.” A school official said that more than 60% of the current student body gets tuition assistance.
“I should also note that contrary to what Mr. Mastriano suggested, the Jewish values taught there did not teach disdain,” Tapper said in a four-minute monologue. “In my experience, they taught community and charity and respect for all faiths and nationalities, races, creeds and colors; love of the United States love for our fellow Americans. So I’m not sure what Mr. Mastriano means when he refers to people like Josh Shapiro having disdain for people like us. The only disdain I ever felt there was for antisemites.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/518163/doug-mastriano-josh-shapiro-jewish-day-school-antisemitism/
Shapiro grew up in Dresher, a community of about 5,000 people in Montgomery County, north of Philadelphia. He went to the Forman Hebrew Day School and Akiba Hebrew Academy, now known as Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.
CNN host Jake Tapper, a fellow Akiba alumnus, said Thursday on his show that the school could be called “privileged” because it’s a private school, but added: “I don’t think I have ever heard Mr. Mastriano describe any other Pennsylvania parochial school in that way.”
Tapper said that when he studied at Akiba in the 1980s, a lot of students received financial aid, including “a lot of kids who, with their parents, had escaped antisemitism in the Soviet Union and were trying to build better lives for themselves in the Philadelphia area.” A school official said that more than 60% of the current student body gets tuition assistance.
“I should also note that contrary to what Mr. Mastriano suggested, the Jewish values taught there did not teach disdain,” Tapper said in a four-minute monologue. “In my experience, they taught community and charity and respect for all faiths and nationalities, races, creeds and colors; love of the United States love for our fellow Americans. So I’m not sure what Mr. Mastriano means when he refers to people like Josh Shapiro having disdain for people like us. The only disdain I ever felt there was for antisemites.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/518163/doug-mastriano-josh-shapiro-jewish-day-school-antisemitism/
