Bella Moskowitz rejected Judaism and directed her family’s religious life

Evidence

If the relationship seemed similar in general to that of Bella’s own parents, there were more specific parallels, too. Like Rosalie, Bella had especially strong feelings about religion: she did not believe in it. She did not want her sons to be circumcised, to be bar-mitzvah—or to have any training whatsoever in the Jewish faith. She wanted her family to be members of the Society for Ethical Culture. Her husband was more religious, but Bella’s feelings were the ones which prevailed, as her mother’s had prevailed. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 144

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Society for Ethical Culture as a secular Jewish alternative religion of the era — worth chasing what it offered that Reform Judaism did not.
• XREF: Broadly relevant to the reader’s thread on reform/assimilation projects; secularist Ethical Culture parallels laicist projects in France and Kemalist contexts.