The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County is a religious, progressive and humanistic community based in Teaneck, NJ since 1953.
While most religions are concerned with ethics, Ethical Culture puts ethics and human flourishing at the center of the search for a meaningful life.
Read more about us or the American Ethical Union, our national organization.
Families of all backgrounds, particularly those with mixed religious heritage, trust Ethical Culture to provide a caring community in which children up to age 14 can learn to find answers to the most important questions in life.
Society members teaching in our Sunday School use age appropriate curricula to help children understand themselves, their relationships to others around them and the world they live in. Kids make friends and have fun as they gradually develop their own sense of morality and their own humanistic ideals.
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Dr. Chuman has been the leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NJ since 1974.
Activist and Community Organizer
As an activist, Dr. Chuman has worked on behalf of human rights, civil liberties and in opposition to the death penalty, as well as many other progressive causes. He has recently initiated a sanctuary program for asylum seekers detained at the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ.
Educator
Dr Chuman teaches Human Rights at the graduate level at Columbia University, and has taught at the United Nations University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has published numerous articles in the Record of Bergen County, New Jersey. He has also had articles published in The New York Times, The Humanist, Free Inquiry, Humanistic Judaism and other periodicals. He has had articles published on Ethical Culture and religion in several encyclopedias.
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