April 26, 2024
(Editor’s Note: The situation at Columbia University has been well-publicized recently. Scores of pro-Hamas demonstrators have taken over the campus, chanting anti-Israel and antisemitic comments throughout the day and night in a clear attempt to intimidate Jewish students. AEPi members and other Jewish students are coping as best as possible but watching their fellow students and, in many cases, their professors, say so many uninformed and vitriolic things, has been difficult. AEPi’s Iota chapter at Columbia continues to represent our values, even in the midst of these intimidating and increasingly violent times on campus.) Brother Tomer Witelson (Columbia, 2025) is [...]
April 25, 2024
(INDIANAPOLIS, IN) – In a letter sent today to Congresswoman Virgina Fox and the other members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education, the CEO and International President of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity (AEPi), the world’s leading Jewish college fraternity, called on Congress to immediately take steps to protect Jewish college students at Columbia University and other campuses across the United States. The letter states: “Does a Jewish student have to be killed on a college campus before you act? Yesterday morning, we woke up to the news that once again, Columbia is failing to act and has […]
April 19, 2024
(Editor’s Note: Two weeks ago, the AEPi house in Tucson, Arizona was vandalized while the chapter was away for a formal weekend. You can read about the incident in this article. Coincidentally (but probably not), on the day after the chapter returned from their trip, the Tucson City Council was slated to consider a "Cease Fire" resolution. Brother Yehonathan Kleinerman (Arizona, 2026), who is the current chapter president, led a group of Brothers to the City Council and spoke. By the end of the night, and with the help of Past Supreme Master Jeff Jacobson and others in the Jewish [...]
April 26, 2024
(Editor’s Note: The situation at Columbia University has been well-publicized recently. Scores of pro-Hamas demonstrators have taken over the campus, chanting anti-Israel and antisemitic comments throughout the day and night in a clear attempt to intimidate Jewish students. AEPi members and other Jewish students are coping as best as possible but watching their fellow students and, in many cases, their professors, say so many uninformed and vitriolic things, has been difficult. AEPi’s Iota chapter at Columbia continues to represent our values, even in the midst of these intimidating and increasingly violent times on campus.) Brother Tomer Witelson (Columbia, 2025) is [...]
April 12, 2024
Last night (April 11, 2024), AEPi honored two of its stalwart supporters: Brother Mike Leven (Tufts, 1959) was presented with the Nehemiah Gitelson Silver Medallion recognizing him for his commitment to Jewish communal services. Brother Past Supreme Master Scott Cohon (Wayne State, 1991) was presented with AEPi’s highest honor, the Order of the Lion, for his longtime service and commitment to AEPi. Today, we are featuring a rerun of an article from 2015 when Brother Cohon was installed as Supreme Master of AEPi. Much has changed in AEPi, our world and Scott’s life since this article was first published but [...]
April 5, 2024
On the morning of March 15, the AEPi house and the main quad at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois was vandalized with spray paint saying (among other things), “AEPi Supports Genocide” and “Free Palestine.” “When I saw the pictures – almost all of the Brothers were out of town on spring break – I said to myself, ‘It’s gametime.’ I knew that we were going to respond in every way and in the best ways possible,” said chapter president Avram Bulgatz (Bradley, 2026). “They waited to do this until we weren’t here, but we knew we needed to step up [...]
April 19, 2024
(Editor’s Note: Two weeks ago, the AEPi house in Tucson, Arizona was vandalized while the chapter was away for a formal weekend. You can read about the incident in this article. Coincidentally (but probably not), on the day after the chapter returned from their trip, the Tucson City Council was slated to consider a "Cease Fire" resolution. Brother Yehonathan Kleinerman (Arizona, 2026), who is the current chapter president, led a group of Brothers to the City Council and spoke. By the end of the night, and with the help of Past Supreme Master Jeff Jacobson and others in the Jewish [...]
March 15, 2024
(Editor’s Note: Daniel Conway (UC – Berkeley, 2024) wrote the following column to tell his personal Jewish journey in college and express his experiences on campus since October 7. In January of 2023, Daniel was featured as a Friday PiDay on the AEPi website telling his story as a Israel on Campus Coalition Geller Fellow. AEPi is proud to use this space to help Daniel tell his story and to give our Brothers and supporters a taste of the climate on campus today. To submit your own column, email [email protected]). Over the past five months, I have realized that my [...]
December 29, 2023
(Editor’s Note: Brother Rabbi Alan Litwak was a founding father of the Sigma Beta chapter of AEPi at University of California – Santa Barbara. Raised in Northern California, he is a product of the Reform Jewish movement and has served congregations in both Southern and Northern California, as well as Long Island, Manhattan, and Albany, New York. Since 2002 he has held the position of Senior Rabbi at Temple Sinai of North Dade (Florida). The VOICES article below are excerpts from social media posts Rabbi Litwak wrote for his congregation while on a South Florida rabbinical mission to Israel in [...]
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