Amid the furor this past week over the congressional testimonies of Harvard, MIT and Penn presidents — which led Penn President Elizabeth Magill to forcibly resign — I couldn’t help but think by contrast of the background of our president at New York University: Linda Mills, a Jewish woman and documentary filmmaker.

That her mother is a Holocaust survivor is turning out to be more and more relevant. Mills's first film, “Auf Widersehen, Til We Meet Again,” details her family’s return to Austria following her mother’s escape from the Holocaust. Also relevant is her film “Of Many,” which focuses on a powerful relationship between an imam and an orthodox rabbi who both serve as university chaplains in New York City.

These themes of remembering the lessons of history and learning to get along with and befriend those of opposite political or religious beliefs are crucial lessons for our time. “Of Many” won several humanitarian awards and should be a must-watch for every university student in the country. Premiered in 2014, filmed at another time of tension between Jewish and........

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