December 2, 2025
(December 2, 2025) Two years after the 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel, many in the Jewish community marked the anniversary through rallies, marches and other public events. On college campuses, especially, these events were designed to show that the Jewish community wouldn’t be intimidated and that the Jewish community would continue to advocate for Israel and show their Jewish pride. Undergraduates from Alpha Epsilon Pi International Fraternity (AEPi), the world’s largest and leading Jewish college fraternity, advanced those ideals even further by committing to community service projects on and around October 7. Through a partnership with Repair the World and as […]
November 21, 2025
Over the last few months, I have written to you a few times with updates about campus life, reminders about AEPi's health and safety policies and our shared concerns about campus safety for Jewish students. Today, I'm writing to you about a much more personal topic: your son's mental health. Last year, Manny Pargman, a member of AEPi's chapter at the University of Colorado - Boulder took his own life shortly after returning back to school following Thanksgiving break. (As an alumnus of Colorado, this story is even more personal to me). The young brother's father, Ben Pargman, has become [...]
November 18, 2025
(NOVEMBER 18, 2025) The Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Foundation, the global Jewish fraternity’s charitable and educational arm, today announced the hiring of Scott Selig as its new Associate Director of Development for the Northeast region. In this role, Selig will lead fundraising efforts, cultivate alumni engagement, and support the Foundation’s mission in helping to develop future leaders for Jewish communities on college campuses and beyond. Selig, a 1989 graduate of AEPi’s Epsilon Chapter at Emory University, brings more than two decades of leadership in nonprofit management, philanthropy, and community development. Most recently, he served as Development Director for the […]
November 14, 2025
During Founders’ Month, we celebrate the many wonderful aspects of AEPi. Among those is the fact that so many brothers have fathers, grandfathers, uncles and biological brothers in AEPi. This passing of the torch to the next generation – L’dor V’ador – is an instrumental concept in our fraternity which is based on passing down shared values and a critical mission to younger brothers. Over the last year, nearly 15% of all AEPi initiates were legacies. Brother Brad Garber (Columbia, 2026) is a great example of the multi-generational nature of Alpha Epsilon Pi. “My brother (Blake Garber – Columbia, 2024) [...]
October 31, 2025
Editor’s Note: Tomorrow kicks off November and AEPi’s month-long celebration of its founding through the Founders Month challenge. This year, we have set an ambitious goal of raising $613,000 to support our chapters Jewish and academic programming. And a generous donor has agreed to match the first $100,000 raised, meaning that your gift today will have double the impact! To support AEPi’s Founders Month challenge, please click here! To kick-off Founders Month, today we are featuring Brother Fred Fox (Georgia Tech, 1987), the chair of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation. “I was at a conference several years ago – probably [...]
October 24, 2025
Most undergraduate AEPi brothers spent their summer working in corporate internships, clerking in law offices, or making money at other jobs. Not Brother Jack Jaworski (Miami University, 2026). He spent his summer in the jungle. “I study anthropology with a specificity in biological anthropology. Biology and anthropology are the holistic study of humanity and biologic anthropology looks into a lot of primatology and looking at primates because we evolved from them. Some of my classes are more focused on primates and other classes are more focused on the bridge between us and other primates. Specifically, over the summer, I was [...]
October 18, 2024
In the year since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel there has been a lot of noise. Howls of aching pain. Wailing from families who have lost children, grandparents, mothers and fathers. Shouting from protesters on all sides. But the most heartbreaking sound? Silence. “Too many,” posted the American Jewish Committee, “have responded to Hamas’ use of sexual violence with indifferent deafening silence.” Sheryl Sandberg, former Meta COO and founder of LeanIn.org, set out to break the silence surrounding the sexual violence perpetrated on women and girls on October 7 through the production and distribution of a raw documentary film, [...]
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 [...]
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