Rabbi, I respect your right to choose your own religion, but you said all these gentlemen were Hassidic, and elsewhere it has been asserted that the reason for Kosher food regulation is "God said so". That, I think, is fundamentalist.

Why are these people committed to delivering a good public (in American terms) education when, as you also said, none of their children go there?

Here in the UK it is usually the norm that a person is only entitled to be a parent governor of a school if his or her children attend that school. I see much merit in that.