I picked a college close to home to feel safe. Here’s why I’m transferring to Israel. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

I picked a college close to home to feel safe. Here’s why I’m transferring to Israel. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Last year, as I was applying to college in the fraught months after the Oct. 7 attacks and amidst the anti-Israel protests roiling campuses, I shared with JTA readers my criteria for picking a school. I explained how I was looking for campuses where students felt safe to be pr…