Not a single graduate of the Ramaz School, a Jewish college-prep institution in New York City, will head to Columbia University this academic year—something that hasn’t happened in decades.
“For the first time in over 20 years, we will not have a Ramaz graduate enrolling in Columbia College,” Kenny Rochlin, head of institutional advancement at Ramaz, told JNS. “One student is enrolled in the Columbia JTS/general-studies program, and three students are enrolled in Barnard.”
Rochlin told JNS in a statement that “Ramaz provides as much information as possible about the situation at various colleges of interest, and we have given priority to issues surrounding the horrific rise in antisemitic instances at some schools so that our students and their families are able to make informed decisions about which colleges are right for them.”
Tevi Troy, a presidential historian, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and an alumnus of the school, told JNS that “Columbia has long been a favored destination for Ramaz students because of its core curriculum, New York location and historically large Jewish population.”
“It’s a shame that Columbia is destroying this long-standing relationship—not to mention its own reputation—because it is allowing anti-American and antisemitic radicals to run wild and to harass Jewish students with no consequences,” he said.
A statement released on Monday from the House’s Education and the Workforce Committee detailed the lack of disciplinary consequences for alleged criminality by numerous anti-Israel activists at Columbia.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the committee chairperson, came down hard on “Columbia’s invertebrate administration,” calling the shielding of students from consequences “disgraceful and unacceptable.”