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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity

New York University in Greenwich Village, New York, July 7, 2024. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
April 9, 2025, 1:59 pm
Muslim prayer room at New York University vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity
AEPi denies involvement, vows to cooperate with investigation, as campus Muslim chaplain expresses ‘fear, anxiety and outrage’ over phallus-shaped graffiti and soiled carpets
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
August 30, 2023, 7:54 am
Shellfish thrown at UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat house on first Shabbat of semester
Alpha Epsilon Pi denounces incident as antisemitic act, says it found the seafood scattered at property, including in member’s room; police won’t confirm if probing as hate crime
By Emma Goss
Students affiliated with AEPi attend an Israel Independence Day Celebration at University of California, San Diego in 2018. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for AEPi via JTA)
August 14, 2023, 7:34 pm
ADL teams up with Jewish frat to fight antisemitism on US college campuses
Head of AEPi says fraternity’s members ‘are on the front lines of this battle,’ with initiative to involve its 150 local chapters
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Jim Fleischer. (AEPi via JTA)
October 13, 2021, 1:03 am
Jim Fleischer, CEO of Jewish fraternity AEPi, dies at 52
‘Until he took his last breath yesterday, Jim demonstrated his love for two things above all else: his family and AEPi,’ Greek student group mourns
By Bob Jacob
A student bikes across campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/JTA)
September 21, 2021, 2:27 am
Poll finds most in US Jewish fraternity and sorority saw antisemitism on campus
Survey also finds about half of respondents have felt need to hide their Jewish identity at colleges
By Ben Sales
Andrew Borans is the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation and the former executive director of the fraternity. (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)
January 21, 2021, 12:05 pm
Jewish fraternity AEPi exec leaves pro-Trump group after backlash from alumni
Move comes after open letter from 1,000 alumni slammed Andrew Borans’ involvement with Turning Point USA, which took part in January 6 rally that preceded Capitol riot
By Ben Sales
Andrew Borans is the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation and the former executive director of the fraternity. (Screen shot from YouTube/ via JTA)
January 18, 2021, 4:39 pm
AEPi exec defends his ties to campus group that sent buses to pro-Trump DC rally
Century-old Jewish frat says Andrew Borans’s independent involvement with Turning Point USA, which sent demonstrators ‘to fight for this president,’ is his ‘constitutional right’
By Ben Sales
St. Salvator's Quad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. (Remi Mathis/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
July 18, 2020, 10:43 am
Scottish university’s Jewish fraternity faces sexual assault allegations
AEPi at the University of St. Andrews suspends several members after they were alleged to have been involved in incidents of rape and sexual abuse, offers to help police probe
By Marcy Oster
BBYO teens across the United States held discussions about fostering tolerance as part of the Oneday Against Hate campaign. (Courtesy BBYO)
October 13, 2018, 6:10 am
Jewish frat boys take on bigotry on campus with OneDay Against Hate
As the ADL charts an unprecedented rise in US anti-Semitism over the last two years, interfaith groups unite in an effort to promote dialogue and understanding in all walks of life
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ari Goldstein, the former president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Temple University. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Philly)
July 20, 2018, 8:05 am
Ex-president of suspended Jewish frat to stand trial for sex assault
Temple University suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi in April after at least three women alleged they were assaulted at the fraternity house
By AP
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 31, 2018, 5:14 pm
US Jews said to reject Israeli cash to fight BDS, fearing ‘foreign agent’ label
Strategic Affairs Ministry reportedly offering funds for American organizations to bring ‘influencers’ to Jewish state, help oppose boycott
By Sue Surkes
Ari Goldstein, the former president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Temple University. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Philly)
May 19, 2018, 9:56 am
Ex-president of suspended Jewish frat charged with attempted rape
Ari Goldstein indicted on 8 charges, held on $2 million bail, as part of wider investigation into sexual assaults at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house
By CLAUDIA LAUER
The campus of Towson University. (CC BY Mitch LeClair, Flickr)
May 4, 2018, 12:57 am
Jewish university students targeted in suspected anti-Semitic attack
Assailants punch, shout anti-Jewish slurs at two members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Maryland’s Towson University
By JTA
Illustrative photo of students on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
April 23, 2018, 5:18 am
Jewish fraternity at Temple University suspended over sexual assault allegations
Spokesman for Alpha Epsilon Pi says alleged misdeeds have no place in organization ‘based in Jewish values’
By JTA
18-year-old Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, killed during a terrorist attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, November 19, 2015. (Courtesy)
May 1, 2017, 6:23 pm
Terror victim Ezra Schwartz posthumously inducted into Jewish frat
Father, Ari, says AEPi ceremony at Rutgers University was unique because it ‘represents who he could have been’
By JTA
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