Should we stay or should we go? This is the question on the lips of many parents of teenagers who are on the cusp of college. Should we stay in the broken institutions of elite higher education, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for our children to be insulted, threatened, segregated, or even reeducated to abandon the values we have instilled in them? Or should we leave, taking our tuition dollars and alumni contributions to one of the few (generally less elite) universities whose leadership knows how to condemn mass murder unequivocally?

A recent email sent by the principal of a Long Island yeshiva to a New York University admissions officer expressed the views of many American Jews in recent weeks. The principal wrote: