A traditionally Jewish fraternity at the University of Kansas kicked out four members for their involvement in an anti-Muslim video. The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity announced the expulsions in a statement released to the student newspaper, the Daily Kansan, earlier this week. The 10-second video clip shows a man wrapped in a blanket that covers…
Sigma Alpha Mu, the historically Jewish fraternity known as Sammy, is shutting down its University of Michigan chapter in the aftermath of an incident that resulted in criminal charges against its president. The Ann Arbor chapter’s president, Joshua Kaplan, and Zachary Levin, both 19, are facing misdemeanor charges for allowing drug and alcohol use by…
Swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity house at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Two swastikas were spray-painted early Saturday morning in the elevator of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house, and another on the basement door, the student newspaper the Vanderbilt Hustler reported. The anti-Semitic vandalism reportedly was discovered after a party at the fraternity…
Members of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis awoke to find swastikas painted on their building two days after the student senate passed a divestment resolution targeting Israel. The non-binding advisory resolution, which was passed Jan. 29 by the Associated Students of UC Davis by a vote of 8 to 2 with two abstentions, calls…
(JTA) — Jewish campus groups were ready for the painful national dialogue that took place in the wake of murky rape allegations at the University of Virginia. That’s because organizations like Hillel and historically Jewish Greek houses such as Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Delta Tau had been having the conversations for…
A son of the former congressman Eric Cantor is a member of the University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a high-profile rape scandal. Michael “Mikey” Cantor, whose father until recently was the sole Jewish Republican in Congress, belongs to Phi Kappa Psi at the Charlottesville school, according to The Daily Caller website. The…
A fraternity at the University of Arizona is on an interim suspension after allegedly attacking members of a Jewish fraternity. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is accused of assault and discrimination for attacking members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, a Jewish fraternity, on Friday night. About 15 members of the SAE fraternity forced they…
Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced last week in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years probation, and ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. Last month, Hayden Grom…
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