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By Ami Eden · September 9, 2009

A few years back, when I was at the Forward, we were looking for an angle to cover Ronald Stanton's $100 million gift to Yeshiva University (the size of the gift would have been angle enough, had Y.U. not understandably decided to give an exclusive to The New York Times). What we came up with was the fact that in addition to his support of the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy, Stanon was also a major backer of Manhattan’s Heschel School, a pluralistic Jewish day school."