The street buzzes on Friday mornings, the start of the Israeli weekend, with people brunching, shopping and scoping out the arts-and-crafts fair in the courtyard of the alternative Adam Waldorf School.

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Today over 160 Waldorf schools flourish in the United States including the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, which touts the support, and educates the children, of eBay, Google, Yahoo and Apple executives.

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So much so that Waldorf started a software consulting company before he even began high school.

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