March 31, 2023
Sports journalism has been growing in popularity, especially on social media. Brother Matan Mann (Muhlenberg, 2020) is the Lead Social Producer at The Game Day, helping to create high valued sports videos and posts for social media. Brother Mann had a strong Jewish upbringing in Teaneck New Jersey. His family kept kosher, he went to Jewish Day School, kept Shabbat and celebrated all the holidays. Brother Mann was a musician growing up and enjoyed being creative. He was also, along with his father and grandfather, a fan of the New York Football Giants and the New York Mets. “I wondered [...]
March 29, 2023
NEWS RELEASE ALPHA EPSILON PI RAISES MORE THAN $40,000 FOR JEWISH AND ISRAELI PHILANTHROPY THROUGH ANNUAL MENSCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT (INDIANAPOLIS, IN) – Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity (AEPi), the world’s leading Jewish college fraternity, has raised $40,605 for AEPi’s Repair the World Fund to benefit organizations supporting Jewish and Israeli causes through the fraternity’s annual Mensch Madness bracket challenge. This year’s total more than doubles the highest amount ever raised since the program was launched in 2014. AEPi’s Mensch Madness Official Bracket Challenge combined the excitement of the annual NCAA college basketball tournament with the competitiveness of pitting campuses across the […]
March 27, 2023
NEWS RELEASE ALPHA EPSILON PI PARTNERS WITH FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM TO #STANDUPTOJEWISH HATE (INDIANAPOLIS, IN) –Alpha Epsilon Pi International (AEPi), the world’s leading Jewish college fraternity, has joined the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism as an official partner of #StandUpToJewishHate, its new national campaign to mobilize all Americans, and especially non-Jews, to combat antisemitism by using the blue square emoji – 🟦 – as a unifying symbol of support. Jews only make up 2.4% of the American population yet are the victims of 55% of religious-based hate crimes. That startling discrepancy is the cornerstone of this new campaign, created through […]
March 31, 2023
Sports journalism has been growing in popularity, especially on social media. Brother Matan Mann (Muhlenberg, 2020) is the Lead Social Producer at The Game Day, helping to create high valued sports videos and posts for social media. Brother Mann had a strong Jewish upbringing in Teaneck New Jersey. His family kept kosher, he went to Jewish Day School, kept Shabbat and celebrated all the holidays. Brother Mann was a musician growing up and enjoyed being creative. He was also, along with his father and grandfather, a fan of the New York Football Giants and the New York Mets. “I wondered [...]
March 10, 2023
Most AEPi Brothers know all too well that planning an event is no easy task. But, sometimes all of that work planning events for AEPi can lead to something greater! Brother Adam Richman (Arizona, 2012) is the co-founder of Medium Rare Entertainment, planning events and festivals at the highest level for the biggest names, ranging from Shaquille O’Neal to Guy Fieri. Growing up in Boca Raton Florida, Brother Richman went to a private Jewish Day School and a Jewish sleepaway camp. “My Jewish upbringing really helped plant the seeds of who I am today. Not only from a personal perspective [...]
March 3, 2023
Brother Steven Graber (Drexel, 2012) has taken many of the lessons he learned at AEPi’s Deta Rho chapter and applying them to help advance and expand the Maccabi Games in the U.S. and around the world. Growing up, Brother Graber played baseball and wrestled. As he grew older, he stopped competing and became more of a fan. Originally from Buffalo, he counts himself a member of the “Bills Mafia” but he also likes basketball and Major League Soccer. Loving sports got him into the business of sports. Although a communications major at Drexel University, he was involved in the school’s [...]
March 24, 2023
My name is Yuval Klein. I got my bachelor's degree in Israel and my master's degree in Tokyo, Japan. I got to know AEPi through my cousin from Canada who told me a lot of stories from when he was in university. When he came to Israel as a lone soldier, he wanted me to join AEPi and invited me to join as an honorary Brother. I'm very happy I did because I've met wonderful people and have made a lot of good business connections. I've been very engaged with AEPi since the outset. I served in the IDF as [...]
November 21, 2022
Yesterday, I woke up to news of yet another horrific act of hate and senseless violence. On behalf of AEPi, I want to extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the five people killed at Club Q in Colorado Springs. May their memories be a blessing. At the same time I offer Refuah Scheleimah to the many others who were physically injured and those mentally scarred from the incident. However, I cannot stop there with a simple acknowledgement and words of sympathy. The world cannot simply sit back and expect a miraculous and necessary cultural change without [...]
July 5, 2022
By: Andrew Neiberg (Florida State, 2007), AEPi International’s Director of Campus Operations (Editor’s Note: Brother Andrew Neiberg and his family were with Supreme Governor Michael Waitz (DePaul, 2009) and his family at yesterday’s Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Il along with scores of other AEPi alumni and family members. Brother Neiberg wrote this first-hand account of the shooting and the immediate impacts on his family. To our knowledge, no one in the AEPi family was hurt at the parade but, given the community, it is almost certain that many AEPi Brothers have a connection to someone who was […]
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