If we want our younger generations to love our faith, our culture, and our peoplehood, we need to be welcoming when they show interest and have a spark of curiosity.

This is a season when we think about obligations and about what we owe one another. Here is a communal obligation, arvut hadadit, that we can actually meet.

When a college chooses the voice, approves the occasion, and hands over the microphone to a known activist, it owns what follows from that stage.

At Sarah Lawrence, a national newspaper agreed to shield a professor’s identity because they feared what their own institution might do if they were named defending Jewish students. That is the climate, in a single fact.

The generation that built these schools believed Jewish life in America had a future worth institutionalizing. Are we willing to invest, sacrifice and build accordingly?

If adult institutions cannot recover moral clarity, young Jews will build structures that can.