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This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?

JL;DR SUMMARY Elon University in North Carolina has received accolades from Jewish organizations for its inclusive environment despite avoiding aggressive security measures often demanded to combat antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityFreedom Of ExpressionJewish SafetyHigher EducationIsrael PalestineElon UniversityStudent DialogueStudent SatisfactionJewish Enrollment

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Elon, North Carolina, United States
"To report this story, I traveled to Elon University twice and interviewed more than 30 current and former students, staff and administrators, consulted the school archives and read widely about both recent developments on campus and the universitys history."
Israel
"I know youre Jewish, he began, but dont you hate whats happening with Israel?"
New York City, New York, United States
"A friend approached Rachel Bermont as she was leaving a high school party in New York City over the summer."
Seattle, Washington, United States
"Greg Zaiser, Elons vice president for enrollment, said that every Jewish family he met during a recent trip to Seattle had learned about the school from the ADL."
Durham, North Carolina, United States
"At Duke University, about 40 minutes away, pro-Israel students told me they felt buoyed by a supportive administration and an aggressive Chabad chapter to go on the offense by blanketing the campus in Israeli flags and confronting protesters."
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
"And at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the schools chancellor made headlines for storming into the middle of a tent encampment surrounded by a phalanx of police and fraternity members to restore an American flag that had been replaced with a Palestinian one."
New York, United States
"Part of the placid climate is due to the fact that Elon is not trying to manage the kind of diversity that exists at the City University of New York, for example, which has a porous relationship with the city it serves and absorbs thousands of Jewish and Palestinian students, among a wide range of others."
Massachusetts, United States
"Families say, Oh, Elon, its so diverse! said Zaiser, the admissions director. If youre coming from a prep school in New England, Elon is very diverse But we have a long way to go."
Colorado, United States
"And while Elon and Colorado College share two of the wealthiest student bodies in the country, the latter was branded with a D by the ADL, and the Trump administration is investigating the school over its handling of antisemitism on campus."
Florida, United States
"Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that his states public universities were open to students fleeing antisemitism elsewhere."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"And when I was reporting at George Washington University a few years ago, a speaker from the pro-Israel StandWithUs told students the Jerusalem Declaration was the result of a group of antisemites that got together and defined what antisemitism is."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Harvard, for example, lists an annual cost of around $86,000 but students actually pay an average of $18,000."

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