Diversity is both a deeply meaningful value and also a pop language word that means many different things to different people. When I was a Jewish philosophy teacher, diversity in our curriculum was about the relationship between Jews and non-Jews and about how we understand Hashem’s mission for both. When I speak about diversity today here in Teaneck, I recognize that we are talking about a very tiny slice of the diversity pie. The reality is that we are an all-girls Orthodox high school serving a fairly homogenous community. Of course, there are going to be nuanced differences, but the bottom line is that all those differences are within a fairly narrow band on the spectrum. So, here’s some background on where diversity is important in our context.
