ABSTRACT
While many Dutch Jews were cutting their ties with Jewish congregations, in Orthodox Judaism a new group was forming, the ultra‐Orthodox. The split became visible with the founding of a new school, the Jewish Children’s Community Cheider. It started with five pupils in the living room of Orthodox Jewish resistance fighter Adje Cohen and was intended as an alternative to the existing Jewish primary school Rosj Pina and the secondary school Maimonides. Up to that point the two schools had taught pupils from Orthodox, Reform and secular families, which meant that many in the Jewish community knew each other from an early age.
