Shellfish dumped on Berkeley's Jewish fraternity house on first Shabbat of semester
“We realized this is more than just a prank,” Alpha Epsilon Pi's president said.
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“We realized this is more than just a prank,” Alpha Epsilon Pi's president said.
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Local police are investigating after a Jewish fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, reported finding hundreds of shellfish dumped
Given that the perpetrators used shellfish, forbidden under the laws of kashrut, and targeted the Jewish fraternity on the first Shabbat of the school year, AEPi considers this antisemitic.
The new initiative will include the creation of something called the Antisemitism Response Center during AEPi’s international convention in New Orleans over the weekend.
Head of AEPi says fraternity's members 'are on the front lines of this battle,' with initiative to involve its 150 local chapters