The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance retracted its allegation on Saturday: “While we did hear these assertions from sources who would prefer to remain anonymous, we cannot independently verify those assertions. As such, we would like to apologize to Harvard … and retract that particular statement.”
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Harvard University may intend to reduce the proportion of Jews in its student body to 1-2%, roughly the Jewish share of the U.S. population, according to a newsletter published by a new group of Jewish alumni of the institution.
In a “December update,” the newly-formed “Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance” reported Friday (original emphasis):
We have seen data that suggest that the Jewish population at the College has declined from 20-25% in the 1990s-2000s to 5-7% today, but that almost all that decline occurred in recent…
