As a child, Mr. Felder attended a Hasidic yeshiva — Yeshiva Karlin Stolin — but he was ordained through Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, an ultra-Orthodox school congenial to the "black hat" or "yeshivish" movement: Jews who are as rigorous as the Hasidim but do not venerate particular grand rabbis.
He never went to school, was not particularly congenial and had few lasting friendships.
Searching for ways to ease the trauma of adolescence for other kids, Lady Gaga came to Harvard University on Wednesday for the formal unveiling of her Born This Way Foundation, meant to empower kids and nurture a more congenial environment in and out of schools.
By last year it had grown into a crowded but congenial town of 35,000, complete with apartment blocks, schools and clinics.
I play on a team called 466South, managed by a long-time former high school coach in New Hampshire, Dave Berry, very likable and congenial.
For much of its 67-year history, it had been in a strip close to the high school; today, with its fans' backing, it has found congenial space in a revamped historic building close to the town dock on Manhasset Bay.
Belying his fearsome reputation, Clarence 13X had a congenial meeting with Gottehrer, during which he requested more bus routes and school funding.
Ms. Ekblad's old-school paint handling and bandwagon of references yield a congenial cacophony but not much progress.
Mr. Demme drives home that indiscriminate hunger for music of all schools and passports within the first half-hour: the congenial, nimbus-haired Mr. Avitabile taps out a beat on his keyboard at home, listens to classical music in the car and soon enough records songs with Pakistani, Palestinian and Cuban collaborators, often on traditional instruments.
Being given instructions about animal husbandry, "and how our crops are grown, how we manage our woodland and do our ditches and do our hedges" may not be wholly congenial to this headstrong daughter of an Irish soldier and a British primary school teacher.
