Congress Probes ‘Enormous Decline’ in Jewish Students on Campus as Harvard Faces New Lawsuit

Inquiries into the changing landscape of Harvard’s student body in recent years bring to mind the oft-forgotten history of Jewish quotas at Ivy League universities.

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Widener Library on the Harvard campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts. William B. Plowman/Getty Images

As lawsuits and congressional inquiries mount against Harvard, some are left wondering whether the decline in Jewish enrollments at Ivy League universities might be playing a role in the rise of antisemitism on those campuses. 

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