At the risk of disagreement with Yonoson Rosenblum becoming habit-forming I’ll take some exception to the conclusion of his column last week. After writing in praise of his alma mater’s rejection of the assault on freedom of thought and expression prevailing on today’s college campuses Yonoson added:
The “Torah is not politically correct and Torah Jews are a small and increasingly vulnerable minority. . . . Unless we want Jewish students to have to become Marranos in the higher echelons of academia we should pray that more universities follow theUniversityofChicago’s lead.”
My feelings are much more mixed than Yonoson’s seem to be about the growing inhospitality of college campuses to Jewish kids. Given the twin threats that radical promiscuity and militant atheism/nihilism pose to Orthodox students what’s happening on today’s campuses seems like a net positive development for our community.
In 2003 two Orthodox Ivy League graduate students published
