Gatecrashers tells the hidden history of Jews in the Ivy League, and explores how the modern college admissions system, with all its faults, can be traced back to anti-Jewish measures implemented in the 20th century.
I reported the Cornell episode, uncovering how in the late ‘60s, antiwar Jewish students built a radical off-campus commune—a story featuring a fugitive priest, a raucous Freedom Seder, and rice fried on radiators.