I didn’t realize that “Brandeis is supposed to be the hub of jewish intellectualism in higher education.” Back when I drove from Cambridge every month to attend meetings at Brandeis related to my research interest, and back when my sister-in-law and her husband were Ph.D. students at Brandeis, I thought that Brandeis University was a hub of intellectualism in higher education.
Now that my daughter has been offered consideration as a member of a Leader-Scholar Community and accepted at the University, I have to wonder how my half-Chinese, non-Jewish kid would fit in on a campus that includes elements that prioritize, say, support for Israel and a particularly “jewish intellectualism.”