Anna, Thank you for writing and publishing an interesting essay. You discussed discrimination against Jews in the USSR when you were in college there in the 1980s.

Johns Hopkins' President Ron Daniels discussed a similar discrimination at JHU's commencement speech of 2016 about Isaiah Bowman, the fifth president of Johns Hopkins University, who served from 1935 to 1948. There's a Bowman drive on campus and a bronze bust of Bowman on the portico of Shriver Hall. (Shriver was not a paragon of virtue either).

https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/18/commencement-2016-daniels/ has a transcript, or on YouTube, the same video, from 3:00 to 7:00 is the meat of the matter:

https://youtu.be/6YDKb_hYR78?t=180