On a campus of 27,000 students, the Hillel chapter estimates there are only 90 Jewish students, undergraduate and graduate. That tiny 0.3% presence is reflective of Arkansas, where Jews have always been a small minority, never making up more than 0.5% of the state's population.
At Harvard, the decline has been especially pronounced, falling to less than 10 percent of the student body today from roughly 20 percent a generation ago, according to estimates by outside scholars and surveys of the student body, including one conducted by The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.
The University of Pennsylvania has about 1,600 undergraduate Jewish students, which is about 16% of the undergrad population. PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The University of Pennsylvania is looking to move forward after the resignation of embattled former president Liz Magill.
How many Jewish students attend the University of Michigan? There are approximately 6,500 Jewish students at Michigan – 5,000 undergrads and 1,500 graduate students. This approximately 14% of the student body of UofM as they have an estimated 45,000 students on campus.
The UW Hillel Foundation provides a home for 5,000 Jewish students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hillel is a pluralistic organization supporting all of the Jewish movements as authentic expressions of Jewish Life.
Explore Hillel at Stanford. Hillel at Stanford is the Jewish home for 550 Jewish undergraduate and 1100 Jewish graduate students, and a center to share the wisdom and beauty of Jewish life with the university community as a whole.
It is the center of Jewish life on campus, creating meaningful Jewish experiences and opportunities for students to embrace Judaism – now and for a lifetime. It reaches roughly 1,800 of the 3,000 Jewish students at UCLA, more than 3,000 non-student community members, and empowers 110 student leaders.
The state of New York houses the largest Jewish population in the U.S. at a significant 1,785,727. This isn't surprising considering the state's historical ties to Jewish immigrants from the 20th century. California takes the second spot on our list with a Jewish population of 1,234,540.
The University of Texas at Austin is a vibrant campus community with more than 3,000 Jewish students, making Texas Hillel host to the largest population of Jewish students in the region.
Today, Jewish students account for about 30 percent of the Yale enrollment, far greater than the proportion of Jews in the United States population, which is listed at 2.5 percent in the 1985 American Jewish Year Book.
Less than 1 percent of Boston College's 8,900 day undergraduates are Jewish, according to the Boston College chapter of the Jewish campus organization Hillel, but the small but thriving Jewish community at BC has had impact beyond its numbers.
The share of Jewish students at Columbia University is an estimated 22.3 percent. Roughly 8.8 percent of Dartmouth students, and 9.6 percent of Princeton students, are Jewish.
The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic.
Our community is comprised of 700 Jewish students from various backgrounds, and the Princeton Jewish community provides students across campus with both meaningful experiences and tons of fun. Student groups and programs are student-driven.
Many of those students came together inside the IU Hillel building. The organization is considered the home away from home for the roughly 4,000 to 5,000 Jewish students who call Indiana University Bloomington home. The Jewish community here in the Hoosier state are just trying to make sense of it all.
