Jewish Students are Changing the American College Map
“Jewish students are making different choices about where to study, and those choices are reshaping the very map of Jewish campus life.”
Jewish students are changing their patterns in where they apply, based on the insanity of the anti-Israel left.
Algemeiner reports:
How Jewish Students Are Re-Drawing the College Map and Migrating to the South (PART ONE)
As campuses across the country reopen this Fall, the familiar rhythms of college life are returning. Freshmen are moving into dorms, quads are buzzing with activity, and families are sending their children off with hope and excitement.
This season of beginnings also coincides with the Jewish High Holy Days: a time of reflection, renewal, and community. For many Jewish families, the symbolism feels especially poignant this year.
Yet, beneath the surface of move-in day photos and holiday gatherings, something fundamental has shifted. This Fall marks a turning point. Jewish students are making different choices about where to study, and those choices are reshaping the very map of Jewish campus life.
For generations, ambitious Jewish families knew the path forward: aim for Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Yale — the elite colleges and universities of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. These schools were not just prestigious academic institutions. They were symbols of Jewish ascent in America, places where a community once shut out by quotas had built vibrant campus lives and become vital to the intellectual and cultural fabric of higher education.
That roadmap is now breaking down. Across Jewish day schools, synagogue youth groups, and Jewish and Zionist family dinner tables, a profound debate is unfolding. Parents and students are asking a new question: Should you still chase the Ivy League dream, hoping to carve out a space for Jewish identity on campuses increasingly hostile to open expression and Israel?
Or should you go where you can thrive, to universities that welcome you as a student and as a Jew, where you can build community and simply live without fear or exhaustion?
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I’m hoping at least some of these young scholars are pragmatic enough to be taking self-defense courses and – where allowed by our masters – getting concealed carry permits and above all getting training and range time.
And get expelled for escalation instead of bringing their case to the Republican district attorney to see after it happens in the places these Jews are applying to.
Or in the case of Jews going for places still in leftist jurisdictions like Harvard expulsion will not be an issue because they will be prosecuted for what you suggest after the attack ends.
I would rather the next generation of Jews be Jewish doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, and architects instead of inmates in the local prisons.
You won’t become a doctor or a lawyer if you’re dead.
Perhaps I’m the only one who sees (Jewish) history repeating.
My recommendations (as a Jewish Ivy League grad from mid-century last century – ready fo the firestorm?) for a Jew who wants to study at an Ivy League school today, though the pro-Palestinian/Antifa group hates Christians as well
1. take off your yarmulke and Mogen Dovid
2. leave the religion line on all applications blank
3. join a non-Jewish fraternity; you don’t have to convert
4. go to church (any one, it doesn’t matter since you weren’t brought up believing in Christ, only G-d) with your friends
5. support Israel and pro-Israel causes quietly
6. reconsider the conditions under which the Marranos lived
One caveat
Jews have already gone underground on college campus, 80% are hiding their ethnic and religious identity.
How does #4 help? Most of the anti-Semitic crowd are similarly intolerant of Christianity, unless it’s a denomination that adheres to Woke doctrine and dogma including anti-Semitic hatred of Israel.
Perhaps instead, assuming it’s not too radical, consider applying to some of the actually Christian not just officially or historically Christian options? While religiously Jewish differs to Christian, there’s likely to be less ethical conflict. Or are most Jews looking at Harvard etc too Woke and too Atheist to tolerate that option?
Roughly equivalent beliefs, lessons from people from a very similar religious point of view and being safe due to there simply being too many Christians.
So you’re in favor of intermarriage &!assimilation. Not to mention that #4 at the least is in flagrant violation of Jewish law. Your cure is worse than the disease.
read more carefully with a clearer (less biased) eye. I’m not advocating for anything you mentioned; just several means of staying alive: sorta like a lone guppy or two swiimming along in the tank with a much larger group of swordtails.
Speaking as a former Freshman Advisor at Harvard, the Jewish students tend to be among the very best students at the Ivy League schools. This is partly because the schools tried not to admit more than a certain percentage (typically 40%) of Jewish students. A WASP kid from Nevada was admitted much more easily than a Cohen from Brooklyn (or Brookline), who had to be truly outstanding.
Now, if these best students start going to other schools where they are treated better, they will gradually improve the standing of those other schools. It reminds me of when Hitler threw all the Jews out of the German universities. Those same Jews moved to England and America and developed the atom bomb for the Americans. Stupid move, Adolph!
It can’t be enjoyable to attend a campus where you’re not welcome.
That said, is it worth giving up a tier I school for some (maybe) second tier school?
Especially important if the student is planning to attend graduate or professional school. In those cases, undergraduate institution does matter.
Not sure that being in upper 10% of second class school is better than being in top 20% of a top school.
Tough choice either way.
Not to mention that it’s one no one should have to make.