We are Jews in the South
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Anonymous
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I'm Jewish from Indiana. I attended Indiana University in the early 1980s. Yeah. I am that old. Most of my friends were Jewish - Chicago, Ohio, Illinois, New York natives.
Good business, music schools. Jewish Studies department. Overseas study opportunity in Israel. No issues... |
Anonymous
My niece loves the Hillel there and I've heard that the dining halls have a lot of plant based options |
Anonymous
YEP, tons. Very culturally Jewish campus. Greek life included. (if they still have greek life !) |
Anonymous
I’m not gonna lie….I am shocked when I hear that Jewish kids go to non t30s, non t10 slacs, non t5 publics… …I know a lot of Jewish people and mostly date Jewish women and I have never come across a Jewish person that isn’t of that academic background |
Anonymous
A lot of Jewish kids in my area are going to GWU or American (hard to compete when top schools have single digit acceptance rates  )
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Anonymous
+1 for UT. A very large, very active Jewish population. |
Anonymous
Thanks for the stereotype. Seriously, I hope you don't say thing like this out loud. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
This has to be a troll because it’s so ridiculous. |
Anonymous
I hope it is a troll! |
Anonymous
+1 Go Gators! |
Anonymous
| Not Jewish but University of Maryland has a very active community on the message boards. I have a freshman. |
Anonymous
No idea and I am Not Jewish -/ but I have always admired Jewish friends commitment to education, building community and community service volunteer .work. While that characterization of Jewish college snobbery can not be substantiated, and if true in his experience, it is more a reflection of his social circles than wider reality according to Jewish college search sites that reveal a wider portfolio of popular Jewish colleges and universities. However, the fact that Jews are highly educated and highly value education is beyond dispute. https://www.pewforum.org/2016/12/13/jewish-educational-attainment/ Jewish educational attainment With an average of 13.4 years of schooling, Jews are the most highly educated of the world’s major religious groups. Nearly all Jewish adults ages 25 and older around the world (99%) have at least some primary education, and a majority (61%) has post-secondary degrees. This high level of education has been the case for several decades, meaning that Jewish educational gains across recent generations have been modest. The youngest cohort of Jews analyzed in the study has, on average, just 0.4 more years of schooling than the oldest cohort, while the share with higher education has increased by only 1 percentage point across the three generations in the study. In fact, the share of Jewish men with post-secondary degrees actually has declined globally, driven by trends in the United States.27 About eight-in-ten of the world’s Jews live in Israel or the U.S.28 In Israel, Jewish adults have an average of 12.0 years of schooling, while in the U.S. they average 14.7 years. Jews living outside these two countries also tend to be highly educated and, in most cases, have greater levels of attainment than their non-Jewish compatriots. There are greater discrepancies among Jews in different regions when it comes to higher education. Just under half of all Israeli Jews (46%) and three-quarters of North American Jews have post-secondary degrees. But in South Africa, fewer than three-in-ten Jewish adults (29%) have obtained this level of higher education. Jews have a great deal of gender equality in educational attainment. Globally, Jewish men and women each have 13.4 years of schooling, on average, and 61% of both men and women have post-secondary degrees. In the youngest generation of Jews, women have a year more of schooling, on average, than men, and women are more likely than men (by 12 percentage points) to have higher education.30 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/13/jews-are-worlds-best-educated-religious-group-study-reveals Jews are better educated than any other major religious group in the world, with an average of 13.4 years of schooling and a majority going on to higher education, a study has found. At the other end of the educational scale, Hindus and Muslims have the fewest years of formal schooling, with an average of 5.6 years. One in four young people in developing countries unable to read, says UN The main reason for the disparity is that Jews are largely concentrated in Israel and the US, countries with high levels of education generally, whereas 98% of the world’s Hindus live in the developing countries of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. It found that, compared with the Jewish average of more than 13 years of formal schooling, Christians had 9.3 years, Buddhists 7.9, and Muslims and Hindus 5.6. Adults with no religious affiliation spend 8.8 years in school on average. Almost one in five of all adults – more than 680 million people – received no formal schooling, but for Muslims and Hindus, the number missing out on education rose to around two in five. However, in recent years the amount of time spent at school has increased among all groups. |
Anonymous
| I went to UNC and had a lot of Jewish friends there. There's a Hillel as well. UNC is heavily in-state and pulls from a lot of wealthier/nicer school districts in the major NC metros like Raleigh and Charlotte, so there is diversity. |
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https://hillel.org/college-guide/search#radius=10&select=top60
This list show’s the number of Jewish students at each school. |