As Yale's Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving’https://freebeacon.com/campus/as-yales-jewish-population-declines-to-1940s-quota-levels-university-leaders-say-jewish-community-is-thriving/Yale College's Jewish enrollment is down from 16.4 percent in the 2010s to just 9.5 percent in 2024, a level comparable to the 1940s, when the Ivy League school imposed quotas aimed at excluding "alien" Jews from campus, according to data from the Yale Chaplain's Office. Yale leaders said they aren’t concerned by the figures and that the school's diminished Jewish community is "thriving."
The comments from Yale College dean Pericles Lewis and University Chaplain Maytal Saltiel came in wake of a new report from the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance titled, "A Narrowing Gate: Jewish Enrollment at Harvard and Its Peers," that identified the decline in the Jewish population at Yale as particularly troubling, given that Yale has increased the size of its undergraduate classes in recent years and has seen a decline in the number of Jewish undergraduates nonetheless.
Discrimination? Jewish families choosing less hostile universities? Probably both, IMO.
