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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

A lot of girls come to my school and assume they'll be DPhiE because they're Jewish-then they meet the chapter! Their all Hispanic and far from the "national stereotype". They are also one of DPhiE's largest chapters! After every recruitment we always hear the story "I'm Jewish so I was going to be a DPhiE, but..."!

We have chapters like that also! Also, ZBT is know as religious Jews almost all over.....every time I hear that I can't help but laugh cus the ones on my campus were anything but religious Jews.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

My SAI little, as I have said a few times, is an SDT legacy. She told me yesterday that while SDT is no longer a "jewish only" sorority, every chapter has to be completely one way or the other-fully jewish membership or fully non jewish membership. I don't know how true that is....but, I would assume she is right because her info came right from a sister.

100% Not true! My chapter had a strong mix of Jews and non-Jews, as do other chapters I know of. I think what it is, as been mentioned several times already, people tend to go where there are more people like them, which is why a chapter tends to lean towards either almost fully Jewish or almost fully not.

My NM class (there were 2 of us) is half and half, the class after me (4 girls) was half and half, and the class after us was totally not Jewish...and the class before us (to throw it in) was 2 Jews and a non-Jew. And so on. A girls religion never made a difference to us or bothered us and we attracted a mix. We still never did anything mandatory on a Friday night or a Jewish holiday out of respect for the religious sisters, and did the same on holidays like Christmas and Easter. In fact, what made me in the end realize that SDT was the place for me was the then president telling me how when she was looking to pledge there wasn't any religious Jews and they told her if she joined they would stop holding anything mandatory on Friday nights, Saturday, and any other Jewish holiday when she couldn't be there because of religion, and how much that meant to her. That's when I realized just how much respect there was in between sisters and the different beliefs that everyone held, and that sealed it for me.

Okay, I went off on a tangent, but the whole aspect of a Jewish sorority and the idea that we were only allowed to take one type of person, or took mainly just one type, bothered me. Sorry!