Contradiction in terms

A faculty member takes a shot in the 2006 Maimonides School faculty vs. senior class basketball game — an annual tradition proceeds from which are donated to charity.

“To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.’’

— Noah Feldman (born 1970), constitutional-law expert, columnist and all-around public intellectual

Noah Feldman