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At some institutions these demonstrations have prompted civil rights investigations, interruptions to research funding, and\/or revisions to campus speech policies. Government and university leaders have often cited concerns about Jewish students\u2019 well-being as the impetus for these interventions. However, it is unclear to what extent these events, and the broader campus atmosphere around Judaism and Israel, have affected the well-being of Jewish students. Thus, we surveyed 3418 US college students from January-June 2025 (mean age\u2009=\u200920; 57% women; 68% White; 17% Asian; 12% Hispanic; 3% Black). Students completed questionnaires regarding demographics, anxiety, depression, loneliness, flourishing, sense of belonging, and campus atmosphere. The preregistered goals were to (1) evaluate Jewish students\u2019 well-being relative to peers with other religious identities and (2) examine how strongly Jewish students\u2019 well-being was related to sense of belonging on campus and perceptions of institutional atmosphere toward Israel and Judaism. With regard to the first goal, 47% of Jewish students reported being somewhat or very concerned about campus antisemitism\n                    <jats:bold>.<\/jats:bold>\n                    Nonetheless\n                    <jats:bold>,<\/jats:bold>\n                    on measures of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and flourishing, they reported similar well-being compared with students of other religions, and better well-being compared with students who did not endorse a religious identity. Similar patterns were observed in a large survey of US college students performed from 2016\u20132022. With regard to the second goal, Jewish students\u2019 well-being in 2025 was positively associated with both perceiving a less hostile campus atmosphere and experiencing a greater sense of campus belonging. However, sense of belonging explained 2\u20134 times more variability in outcomes. These findings indicate that despite prevalent concerns about anti-semitism, Jewish students had similar or better well-being than peers 15\u201320 months after the hostilities of October 7, 2023.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0357478","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,11]],"date-time":"2026-09-11T17:40:03Z","timestamp":1789148403000},"page":"e0357478","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The well-being of Jewish college students in the United States"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Simone","family":"Ispa-Landa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern University","place":["Evanston, Illinois, United States of America"],"department":["Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy, and Department of Sociology"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Avital","family":"Strauss","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston IL and Brown University","place":["Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eleanor","family":"Ostroff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine","place":["Chicago, Illinois, United States of America"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1970-6332","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Harrison","family":"Garcia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine","place":["Chicago, Illinois, United States of America"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-4094-6497","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Yonatan","family":"Lean","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine","place":["Chicago, Illinois, United States of America"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jonathan","family":"Kfir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of California","place":["Berkeley, California, United States of America"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7217-1082","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Gregory E.","family":"Miller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northwestern University","place":["Evanston, Illinois, United States of America"],"department":["Institute for Policy Research and Department of Psychology"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0357478.ref001","volume-title":"The Healthy Minds Study: 2024-2025 Data Report","author":"D Eisenberg","year":"2025"},{"issue":"8","key":"pone.0357478.ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"711","DOI":"10.1007\/s00127-010-0238-7","article-title":"Intimate relationships and childbearing after adolescent depression: a population-based 15 year follow-up study","volume":"46","author":"U Jonsson","year":"2011","journal-title":"Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol"},{"key":"pone.0357478.ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"305","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socscimed.2018.12.030","article-title":"Adolescent mental health and unemployment over the lifespan: population evidence from Sweden","volume":"222","author":"V Mousteri","year":"2019","journal-title":"Soc Sci Med"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0357478.ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"578","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1511085112","article-title":"Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span","volume":"113","author":"YC Yang","year":"2016","journal-title":"Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A"},{"key":"pone.0357478.ref005","volume-title":"Belonging: the science of creating connection and bridging divides","author":"GL Cohen","year":"2023"},{"key":"pone.0357478.ref006","volume-title":"10 to 25: The science of motivating young people: a groundbreaking approach to leading the next generation\u2014and making your own life easier","author":"D Yeager","year":"2024"},{"key":"pone.0357478.ref007","unstructured":"United States Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs. 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