I’m a Jewish alumna of Christian colleges —where I found a safe home

“But you’re Jewish!”

Other than “Why?” this is the most common reaction when I share that I attended a Christian college.

Actually, I attended two.

Recent events on college campuses have invited me to reflect on my own college experience — and what it could have been had I attended another school.

At Columbia, I would have fled campus to celebrate Passover safely, rather than hosting a seder of my own and inviting professors, as I did at Hillsdale College.

At Yale, my eyes might have been stabbed by a protester rather than opened as they were at Pepperdine University, where I attended graduate school.