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Study Finds Jewish Professors Less Observant
fessoriate and about 20 per-
cent of the faculties of elite
Jewish college professors universities."
He noted the. general
are likely to be less obser-
impression
that Jewish
vant and less committed —
except about Israel — thari professors tend "to be
are Jews of equal intellec- apart from the Jewish
tual attainment - outside of community." He said it
'academia, according to a was a fact that relatively
Jewish scholar who has many Jewish professors do
made a formal study of his not attend synagogues or
keep kosher and are
Jewish colleagues.
"relatively more likely to
This is a situation, ac- have gentile friends and a
cording to Allan Mazur, as- gentile spouse." He said it
sociate professor of social was also "probably true"
science and sociology at Syr- that Jewish professors, as
acuse University, which is a group, "have thought
likely_to have a profound more about where they are
impact on the commitments religiously and ethnically
of American Jewish ,youth, and are less likely to ac-
most of whom now attend cept their Jewishness as it
college. Prof. Mazur re- was given to them." '
ported his findings in
Prof. Mazur stressed that
otz, the Jewish student pub- there was "great individual
lication at the university.
variation" among the schol-
Prof. Mazur included in ars, citing Jewish professors
his report a brief descrip- he knew to be atheists, oth-
tion of the elitist character ers who keep-kosher, "one at
of the Jewish scholars, re- least who is a rabbi, and
porting that while Jews are some who are American-
only three percent of the Jewish garden-variety high
American population, "they holiday temple attenders,"
account for about nine per- as well as "agnostics, deists,
cent of the American pro- theists, some who are eon-.
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fused and some who do riot
care one way or another." -
Jewish prOfessors, he re-
ported, "tend to come from
families that are typical of
the general Jewish commu-
nity. They are about as
Teens —
Men 0,
likely to come from kosher
homes, to have Bar Mitzvas,
and so on, as Jews in other
occupations." He also con-
tended that the differences
did not stem from superior
intelligence, declaring that
Jewish doctors, lawyers,
other professionals and
businessmen "have compar-
able intelligence and they
are embedded in the main-
stream of Jewish commu-
nity life."
A more accurate evalua-
tion, he said, was that pro-
fessors o all religions
"tend to be less observant
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also tend to be more liberal
politically; better read and
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interested in literature r
and the arts."
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