Is getting into Columbia or Barnard worth not being able to attend a movie night, run by campus lesbians and open to 450 guests, because “Zionists aren’t invited”?

Is getting into Cornell worth having to walk by swastikas, tune out calls that sympathizers shoot up the kosher dining hall, or having to attend some classes and after-school activities in secret locations for your own safety?

Is getting into Harvard worth being told by your fellow students the very day that Hamas terrorists butchered 1,400 civilians in southern Israel and took hundreds more back to Gaza as captives that Israel was “entirely responsible” for this calamity?

Hard call.

The real dilemma for Jewish families in America is, what’s left?

[No, no, no, yes indeed, and there are still options, even in this bleak time. Look to the universities where administrators took action not just to cluck their tongues at hatemongers, but to actively curb their activities. Florida has new policies in place to disband terror-supporting groups, still controversial but at least showing the correct concern in this cultural crisis. Universities like Franciscan U at Steubenville offered fast-track transfers and security to Jewish students; reward them with the best scholars. But none of this will be easy, and parents sending their teens off to college in this environment have every reason and right to be frightened at what might happen. It’s absolutely shocking and infuriating that they will have to go through this. — Ed]