Jewish university receives 53% increase in transfer applications amid widespread anti-Israel protests at Ivy Leagues

A Jewish university has been flooded with applications amid the widespread anti-Israel protests taking place on Ivy League campuses across the country.

The private Orthodox Jewish institution Yeshiva University, with four locations in New York, has seen a a significant increase in enrollment, due to Jew hatred and a rise in antisemitic hate crimes driven by the October 7  Hamas attack on Israel.

The university was already at capacity before the violent demonstrations began at NYU and Columbia, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests, but they opened their doors to students and faculty that felt unsafe in their current environment. 

Currently, the university has seen a 53 percent increase in student transfer applications from from Yale, Cornell and Columbia. One former student from Cornell who recently transferred, told Fox Business, he spent his time at university 'fighting Jewish hate.'

Yeshiva had to lease additional buildings for student housing this semester with more residence accommodations needed for the fall.

A student walking along the campus of Yeshiva University 

NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian supporters climb a fence during demonstrations at The City College Of New York and Columbia on Tuesday that prompted police interference 

NEW YORK: Tents were placed across the main concourse at Columbia by student protestors as dozens of police swarmed the campus 

Students aren't the only groups fleeing these prominent institutions - with many educators following suit. 

A professor from MIT left to join the faculty at Yeshiva University, due partly to the mismanagement of antisemitism on campus. 

Last week, Yeshiva President Rabbi Ari Berman reinstated their transfer portal to undergraduate students.

Part of the expansion at the university include new faculty positions that will be added that were based on inquiries from other academics from other elite universities, who were looking for a school that shares the same values as their own. 

Protestors wave Palestinian flags on the West Lawn of Columbia University Tuesday in New York, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at US colleges

CALIFORNIA: At the UCLA campus police apprehend a protestor during a pro-Palestinian rally 

Rabbi Berman said how disheartened he was by the absence of leadership at colleges amid the October 7 terror attack.

He questioned 'how presidents of universities were not able to call out what was so obvious, which is that Hamas is a terrorist organization.'

He formed Universities United Against Terrorism, a coalition of higher education leaders in the United States, with more than 100 institutions on board - including public and private, faith-based and historically black colleges.

 'They've been coddled, they've been acting inappropriately and scaring their fellow Jewish students since Oct. 7,' Berman said.

'And the college campuses that haven't educated the truth about the clear and unambiguous — a sense of Hamas being a terrorist organization — this is a fight against people who represent the greatest evil that has been committed to the Jewish people since the Holocaust.'

Berman spoke of his peers fellow university presidents that he said are 'good people' who are committed to creating a safe environment for all students.

He added that despite the fact enrollment has expanded greatly at Yeshiva, they are 'unable to take every Jew in this country.' 

10 Notable Yeshiva University Alumni

Herman Wouk, who died in 2019 at age 104, was one of the greatest novelist of our time. He won a Pulizter Prize for the historical fiction The Caine Mutiny (1951).

Grace Meng, 49, a lawyer and the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York. She is currently serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district since 2013.

Herman Wouk , who died in 2019 at age 104, was one of the greatest novelist of our time

Chaim Potok, 73, was a rabbi, author, and playwright. One of his first book's was The Chosen (1967) that sold more than 3,400,000 copies and was adapted into a film where the lead actress was Barbara Streisand.

Anna Kaplan, an Iranian-American politician from Great Neck, and member of the New York State Senate. 

Kaplan, was part of the so-called 'Long Island Six,' a group of six Democrats who represent Long Island in the NYS Senate and often voted as a block. She was elected in 2018, but lost re-election in 2022.

Ryan K. Turell, 25, is an American professional basketball player for the Motor City Cruise of the NBA G League.

Angela Angel, 45, a politician who represented district 25 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2019. She ran for Congress in Maryland's 4th congressional district in 2022, but lost re-election.

Grace Meng , 49, a lawyer and the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York

Florence Pat Haseltine, 82, a U.S. physician, biophysicist, reproductive endocrinologist, journal editor, novelist, inventor, and advocate for women's health. 

At Yale, she createdthe embryology laboratory, one of the early labs to have a successful IVF baby. The Microscope used in the laboratory is now in Historical Collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

Nathan Lewin, who was born in Poland, and was born in the 1930s, is an American attorney, and many of his cases have gone before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Scott Adam Jacoby, 53, is a producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer. The Grammy winner has worked with a slew of of different artists, and is the founder of his own record label Eusonia Records.

Dipankar Chatterji, 73, an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. 

Dipankar Chatterji , 73, an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit

He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. 

He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of all the major Indian science academies. 

The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to science and engineering.

*Source: EduRank