Build Family and Community. Resist Liberal Individualist Relativism.

 Uncle Ally and Uncle Leon were traditional Jews. They each had three children.

Both decided to move to Brooklyn from Pawtucket Rhode Island in order to send their kids to orthodox day schools.

The message at those schools: build strong family and community.

And they did.

Dad and his brothers were somewhat traditional. They remained basically where the boat landed in Massachusetts.  Their grandparents had immigrated from the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms.

They sent their kids to local public schools.

The message at those schools: individualism. And for the younger kids the message was: liberal-left activism, be pro-choice, feminist, individualist, seek racism everywhere.

In Brooklyn, NY, they built strong families. Their progeny has fanned out over the globe as educators, spreading traditional values.

In Lynn and Brookline, MA, they built individuals who would set out on their own unique journey, engage in debate at every interaction, thus alienating other family members who differed in their political or social views. Some of the progeny attained the American dream, others sought spirituality in Eastern religions, turns out that the liberal world has limited place for its own people.

The religious cousins' value on Jewish education was partly because they saw their cousins assimilate, and not even end up with happy lives: one who made it big, another who remains floundering. 

They could not save their own cousins but they are doing all they can in outreach across the globe to help people bypass a liberal individualist relativist system in which few can make it, most will feel cynical, lost, and will flounder.