Ritzy NYC Prep School Erupts Into Legal Spat Over Antisemitism Task Force

One of New York City’s most prestigious and pricey private K-12 schools, which counts President John F. Kennedy’s son and actor David Duchovny as alumni, has erupted into a nasty legal spat over an antisemitism task force that its top administrator allegedly called a “joke” and “useless.”

In a lawsuit filed in New York City this week, and first obtained by The Daily Beast, the head of the task force, Anna Carello, accused the school’s top administrator, David Lourie, of making a slew of derogatory comments about her and the task force, which was set up to weed out antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in Israel.

Carello claimed in the lawsuit that Lourie said the task force was “nothing more than a ‘power play by Jewish families’ and New York City Rabbis to have him ousted as head of school.”

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