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I think what makes people feel comfortable or uncomfortable is what role chapters feel they have as historically jewish glo's. Some chapters might feel they should embrace/encourage judaism by having many events affiliated with hillel, shabbat dinners and jewish philanthropies. Other chapters might feel its more about having a chapter where jewish members can feel comfortable without being completely jewish in purpose i.e. having kosher food available at events and not having events on shabbos but officially affiliating themselves with hillel.
my chapter (imho) falls under the latter. and i feel that kind of attitude can extend positively towards other religions and promote being considerate of people of all religions. Just as we wouldn't have an event/meeting on Rosh Hashanah we wouldn't have an event on Good Friday. And while my chapter is mostly jewish b/c of our national reputation we specifically recruit non-jews b/c we want some diversity, we don't want everyone to be exactly the same.
There is a chapter on my campus that falls under the first category I described and while they do accept non-jews I do not see how they are comfortable in the chaper. I don't think I personally would be comfortable where most of the activities revolved around being Jewish.
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