Tuesday, August 26, 2025

College-Age Jews Are Heading South

Even before the Ivy League upheavals of the past two years, Jewish students had been slowly drifting away from the elite campuses of the Northeast. Now, as some seek respite from the protest movement that erupted after the Israeli response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, the drift has become more like"sorry"an exodus. And selective colleges outside the Northeast, sensing an intensifying disdain for Ivy League schools among Jewish teens and their parents, are tripping over one another to recruit these students.

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Even before the Ivy League upheavals of the past two years, Jewish students had been slowly drifting away from the elite campuses of the Northeast. Now, as some seek respite from the protest movement that erupted after the Israeli response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of southern Israel, the drift has become more like"sorry"an exodus. And selective colleges outside the Northeast, sensing an intensifying disdain for Ivy League schools among Jewish teens and their parents, are tripping over one another to recruit these students.

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I am a New York Jew who went south for college about half a century ago. Most of the Jews there often hung out with other Jews from their NY/FL/NJ culture. Much more interesting were the southerners. I had friends who were children of Huntsville rocket scientists and my next-door dormmate had a photo of his cow on the wall. Lotsa other characters. World's got plenty of boring, overachieving Jews, whom I grow up with.

When I was going to school, my father said, "Watch out for those southern Jews. They think their s#!t doesn't stink."

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-08-27 10:32 AM

"I am a New York Jew who went south for college"

Wondering what counts as "The South" in your geography...
Rutgers?
(:

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-27 11:01 AM

2. Heh.

Deep South. And I married a woman from Montgomery, AL. I can still tell a decent slice of pizza or a bagel, though.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-08-27 05:06 PM

Columbia and U. Of Toronto, people I know personally.

So, not so south. Got to wonder about what drives a -------- story like this.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-27 07:07 PM

Jews are regular people too?

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-27 07:18 PM

5. About the same percentage of 'em as any other group.

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-08-28 09:05 PM

Not understanding anti-semitism due to almost zero exposure to it I would think the intolerant racist South would be a horrible place for Jews.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-28 09:47 PM

"It's not so much that they want to go to a school that's pro-Israel," Zalman Lipskier, the head of Chabad at Emory, told me. "They just want to be left alone and be able to pursue their education, and pursue their goals and dreams without having to worry about if they're going to get sucker-punched or harassed on their way to class."

Any student deserves to be able to do that.

You can't blame random Jews at school for the foreign policy of the United States and Israel.

That would be like ICE asking for your papers just because you're brown.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-28 10:19 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/The_Jewish_Confederates_by_Robert_N._Rosen_%28book_cover%29.jpg

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-28 10:25 PM

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