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I don’t hide that I attended the Wharton School of Finance (UPENN) 50+ years ago.
I no longer donate money and was thrilled the University President was forced to resign.
That said, I didn’t change my name (I am a 5th generation American with an English name that could be any ethnicity) or appearance.
It was the Jewish faculty that was most mocking and disrespectful of orthodoxy. Non-Jewish faculty were appreciative when given a calendar at the beginning of the semester marking Yuntif days and requesting no exams be given, that I would not be in attendance and assignments handed in the following class day (long before email and personal computers), Jewish professors would say: it’s not RH or YK, too bad.
Then I would go see the Catholic University chaplain who would handle it (the reform ‘Rabbi’ who was the Jewish chaplain was worthless).
I still teach at a law school and a local University. I prerecord lectures and post on line for holiday conflicts.
Being a frum Jew in a suit with beard and head covering has been much easier over the decades