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Continuing a pattern of Democratic support almost a century old, the majority of American Jews are expected to cast a ballot for Joe Biden in this election. Indeed, a recent poll by the American Jewish Committee put overall Jewish support for the former vice president at 75%.

Last week, Tom Ehrlich, who teaches at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Ilana Horwitz, a recent GSE Ph.D. graduate and now a Postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity, found themselves agreeing that amid all the conversations about diversity at Stanford, religion rarely came up. Tom had noticed this after having served as dean of Stanford Law School, provost at the University of Pennsylvania and president of Indiana University. Ilana had noticed this as a sociologist of religion and education. Our shared insight led us to write this piece.