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Originally posted by Rudey
I'd love to know what Jewish fraternities/sororities exist based on "Jewish principles" and what those principles are. I've seen a Christian sorority and fraternity on here and, again, in my opinion those are really not much different from church groups. They are religious. I don't think anyone said this is a big deal either.
-Rudey
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Maybe she's referring to AEPhi, AEPi and SDT?
SDT has a partnership with Hillel. Just as SDT and AEPhi are often considered to be historically Jewish. In fact, you really could call a lot of other NPC sororities "historically Christian"
My boyfriend's mom was a member of a nationally large NPC sorority (not saying which one) in the early 1970s at a large northern university and they absolutely refused to initiate a Jewish girl. They didn't know she was Jewish when they gave her the bid, and their reasoning for denying her initiation was that she couldn't partake in a ritual with Christian roots.
BF's momma feels bad about it now, of course, but back then she said that everyone just accepted it because their sorority was "CHRISTIAN based."
Obviously I'm not a member of a sorority with ties to the Jewish faith, but I can imagine how if some NPC rituals invoke Christian or Jewish religious imagery that the ladies of GGX would want to form a ritual that left it out or invoked some of their own religious imagery. If the majority of their time spent in the sorority is dedicated to religious purposes (prayer, study, etc), then it's a religious group. From what I've seen so far, they seem like most of their time will be spent in activities that are not really religious just like any other social sorority. That's why I personally don't see them as a religious group. But of course, you're free to disagree
