Two Writers Offer Strikingly Different Views of the ‘State of the Jews’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Amid surge in antisemitism, scholars debate the future of Jewish students at elite schools

Will the recent surge of antisemitism on college campuses mark the end of an era for Jews at elite universities? Jewish scholars analyzed the current crisis — and debated whether Jewish students still belong at elite bastions of higher education — at a symposium hosted by the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, NYC, on Sunday. Rabbi David Wolpe, a former visiting scholar at Harvard University Divinity School, delivered the event’s opening ad…

Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’

(JTA) — Last Tuesday night, the author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising tide of antisemitism and a backlash against Israel’s war in Gaza that has left Jews feeling isolated and vulnerable, the Jewish community had within its power to “create nothing short of a Jewish renaissance.” If philanthropists and communities double down on supporting Jewish day schools, summer camps, adul…

Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Last Tuesday night, the author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising tide of antisemitism and a backlash against Israel’s war in Gaza that has left Jews feeling isolated and vulnerable, the Jewish community had within its power to “create nothing short of a Jewish renaissance.” If philanthropists and communities double down on supporting Jewish day schools, summer camps, adult Jewish…