December 9, 2024
Alpha Epsilon Pi International Fraternity (AEPi), the world’s largest and leading Jewish college fraternity, has launched a partnership with Community Security Service (CSS), the leading Jewish organization for community-based security and safety training, to provide AEPi members with advanced security training. The initial training consists of workshops to develop situational awareness, de-escalation skills and security expertise to prevent threats to Jewish campus activities. AEPi’s professional staff are also participating in training workshops in order to provide them with skills they can pass on to undergraduate members. “We are immensely proud that AEPi brothers are often leading the Israel advocacy […]
December 6, 2024
Brother Gerry Garcia (Yale, 1994) has been giving back to AEPi almost since he first helped to start the Epsilon Upsilon chapter in the late 80s. And, today, through his company, PiForever, he’s continuing to help his brothers while giving back to AEPi. His company's model is based on giving back to AEPi, with a portion of every jewelry sale being donated to the AEPi Foundation in order to ensure that future Jewish students have the opportunities that he had while in AEPi. A New Haven, CT native, Gerry got involved in Jewish youth communal activities in part because of [...]
November 29, 2024
The first thing you notice when you begin a conversation with Brother Ethan Winterstein (California – Irvine, 2025) is that he does not have a California accent (he’s from South Africa). The second thing you notice is his commitment to building a stronger Jewish community on his campus and throughout the country using his platform in Alpha Epsilon Pi. “My family moved from South Africa here to Irvine – I had an aunt in the area – in 2017. I did most of my high school here in Irvine and decided to stay in the area so I could be [...]
December 6, 2024
Brother Gerry Garcia (Yale, 1994) has been giving back to AEPi almost since he first helped to start the Epsilon Upsilon chapter in the late 80s. And, today, through his company, PiForever, he’s continuing to help his brothers while giving back to AEPi. His company's model is based on giving back to AEPi, with a portion of every jewelry sale being donated to the AEPi Foundation in order to ensure that future Jewish students have the opportunities that he had while in AEPi. A New Haven, CT native, Gerry got involved in Jewish youth communal activities in part because of [...]
November 29, 2024
The first thing you notice when you begin a conversation with Brother Ethan Winterstein (California – Irvine, 2025) is that he does not have a California accent (he’s from South Africa). The second thing you notice is his commitment to building a stronger Jewish community on his campus and throughout the country using his platform in Alpha Epsilon Pi. “My family moved from South Africa here to Irvine – I had an aunt in the area – in 2017. I did most of my high school here in Irvine and decided to stay in the area so I could be [...]
November 11, 2024
On October 7, Matan Boltax attended the Nova Festival with many of his friends and miraculously managed to escape after staying back extra late on the festival grounds. He narrowly escaped through farmland and hid for 10 hours in a town called Tekuma. A 23-year-old Israeli-American, Matan was born in New York and moved to Israel in 2009. Exactly 370 days since escaping Hamas terrorists at the Nova Festival, Matan found himself at (one of) college football’s Games of the Year as the University of Oregon narrowly beat The Ohio State University in a thrilling and competitive game. How did [...]
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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