A few Jews bring the Ivy League down to earth

Jews like Elise Stefanik, Shabbos Kestenbaum, Rabbi David Wolpe, and others judged institutions of higher learning, and found them sorely wanting.

At a congressional hearing, Stefanik cross-examined three university presidents, and asked them if calling for genocide against Jews would contravene campus rules. The presidents answered that it would depend on the context. Two presidents later resigned.

Kestenbaum, who studied in Harvard, spoke to many audiences about the university’s failure to stop antisemitism, and he sued Harvard. He spoke at the Republican National Convention, and reportedly helped motivate the new administration to firmly address the colleges’ iniquities.

Rabbi Wolpe resigned from Harvard’s board on antisemitism, when he realized that his advice was not being followed.

Antisemitic harassment of Jews at campuses (and university administrators allowing it to happen under the guise of free speech), resulted from liberal woke ideologies that, for years, had pervaded colleges. Ultimately, the antisemitism, and the subsequent judgement calls by several Jews, have now caused prestigious bastions of higher learning to be faced with a stark choice: Either stop antisemitism, and get rid of woke (like DEI etc.), or lose government funding.

A few Jews rose to the occasion, tore down the illusion of pristine enlightenment in seemingly lofty and prestigious American citadels of learning, and showed how these institutions of higher education were morally and fundamentally flawed.

Perhaps the above is a fulfillment of the last verse of Obadiah, the prophet who descended from Esau, converted to Judaism, and prophesied about Esau (who is traditionally considered the progenitor of the Roman Empire and Western civilization):

“And saviors will rise on the mountain of Zion, to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.”

Because when a society’s highest and most elite bastion of learning is corrupt, when it teaches hate and illogical theorems and anarchy, yet nevertheless a few Jews rise up and are able to adjudicate it, and society then follows the Jewish lead and corrects things, then this is a refined society that is capable of receiving and accepting G-d’s kingship.

With everything happening nowadays, as Israel miraculously triumphs and defeats its enemies, and as antisemites are defeated in America and elsewhere, there is much optimism that the complete Redemption with Moshiach is close, a time when “G-d will be King over the entire earth; on that day G-d will be One, and His Name will be One.” (Zechariah 14; 9)

May it happen very soon.