Given his visceral hatred of the far left, you are probably the last person he'd take advice from.I encourage you to start over and make more rational decisions.
Like your rants about universities. Sit down and assess how ver little information you actually have. How very many universities there are. And especially the motivations of those who skew your perception by selecting information to give you a disproportionate sense of the reality.
Ask yourself, for example, if the anecdotes passed to you could not be drowned in a pile of opposing anecdotes by ten to one.
You may still end up where you are right now: a secular jew, like so many educated jews. But it won't be because you made cognitive errors due to your human hardwiring.