<p>Well, let’s not swing the pendulum too far the other direction, either: Brandeis does have a lot of Jews. </p>
<p>It isn’t, as people like to say, “a Jewish university,” but rather, as iiymal said, a university established by the American Jewish community to be open to Jews and others who were then kept out of America’s elite universities and colleges by quotas.</p>
<p>But according to this table published last fall in Reform Judaism Magazine, the undergraduate population at Brandeis is 49% Jewish (<a href=“http://reformjudaismmag.org/_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=3074&destination=ShowItem[/url]”>http://reformjudaismmag.org/_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=3074&destination=ShowItem</a>).</p>
<p>Does this mean non-Jews should feel uncomfortable at Brandeis? I don’t think so. Half the undergraduates aren’t Jewish. There is indeed a significant Muslim community at Brandeis, and there are healthy campus ministries for Christians, too. My next-door neighbors’ kid went there agnostic and came out fervently Catholic. A lot of students, including many who also identify as Jewish, will be atheist, agnostic, skeptics, etc.</p>
<p>Moreover, the Jewish community at Brandeis is so large that it has lots of factions: Orthodox, liberal and just cultural; Zionist and also critical of Israel; and so on.</p>
<p>If you don’t like Jews, or you’re not comfortable around Jews, I think you won’t like Brandeis. But if you don’t have a problem with Jews, then Brandeis isn’t going to have a problem with you, either.</p>