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Only one member of my family teaches at at Harvard, my neice (by marriage) whose father and grandfather were Appellate Court Judges. It is not unusual that she would have married into a family of lawyers and that her FIL, MY BIL teaches at another Massachusetts Law School.
People often go into the family trade, be it shmattes, diamonds, Rabbinics, medicine or law. They’ve grown up listening t the dining table stories, seeing and hearing the experiences of the parents and helping out in the office from the time they can run a copy machine or file alphabetically.
Furthermore, my post is to show that NY is NOT the exclusive home to religious Jews in America. My family moved on from NY more than 100 years ago. My BIL’s family arrived in New England in the early 1880s after the first pogroms in Russia.