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Washington U. has such a large Jewish percentage student body and popular Greek system that there seems to be little issue. I know Hillel had a Greek shabbat (sp?) last year and the Greek population seems to be pretty evenly spread out among the chapters.
When I was an undergrad the only chapters that weren't predominantly Jewish (that I was aware of) were Theta and Kappa, Theta only because there were a lot of Asian girls, and Kappa because they tended to have the Southern WASP-y girls. Each did, however, have a number of Jewish girls. (The other chapters were Alpha Phi, Pi Phi, AEPhi, and DG.) I'm not sure of the population breakdown these days.
Not being Jewish myself, I couldn't tell you more about the tensions between the Orthodox/Conservative/Reform Jewish students/Greek students and Hillel. Most Greeks that are observant Jews I know did go to Hillel, so again, not much issue there.
(Actually, there wasn't much of an issue with the Christians and Greeks, either, that I know. People at WU tend to be pretty isolationist so there's not a lot of Bible-beating or protesting of Greek life, just the usual 'ew Greek life" from the GDIs)
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