June 2, 2006

At Hillel Summit, Some See a 'Golden Age' for Jews on Campuses, Not an Era of Anti-Semitism

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

It's a good time to be a Jewish student at an American college.

So said Jewish leaders who gathered in Washington last week and declared that a golden age of Jewishness on campuses — and not the apocalypse of anti-Semitism — is upon us.

At the first college summit sponsored by Hillel, a national organization for Jewish students, members of prominent Jewish groups did not deny that anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in academe.

They lamented what

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