As Cornell’s Jewish community grapples with antisemitic threats and a tense campus culture following the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, The Sun explored the larger history of Jewish student inclusion and discrimination at Cornell. Although this initiative created opportunities for Jewish students, only a small proportion of Jewish students enrolled at Cornell in its early years. While the number of Jewish students in the student body increased, Altschuler explained that Jewish students still faced discrimination from the administration and other students. “As more Jews were coming to Cornell after World War II and into the 1950s, anti-semitism didn’t go away on the Cornell campus,” Altschuler said. Cornell’s approximately 3,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate Jewish students currently comprise 22 percent of the University’s population, according to Cornell Hillel.

Source: Daily Sun November 27, 2023 05:36 UTC