To the casual observer of Hanukah 5765 on the Wilf Campus, the holiday was celebrated as it had been in years past: menorahs filled the designated lighting areas in the lobbies of university housing; SOY hosted its middling chagigah; YSU put on another vaunted concert; even Yeshiva College professor of Classics, Dr. Louis Feldman, joined in on the fun, delivering a packed-house "yartzheit shuir" for the Greeks.
But 150 blocks south of Washington Heights in midtown Manhattan, far from the trail of sugar powdered jelly-donuts and Beit Midrash hora-style dancing, another group of Yeshiva students were remembering the Maccabean victory over the Greeks in a rather ironic fashion. At West 20th Street's Club Avalon, amid hundreds of college students flashing student IDs that read "Queens" and "Rutgers," stood the party's hosts, a hoard of Yeshiva students loosely associating themselves with an unsanctioned faction of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), the National Jewish Fraternity. Shouting their call sign "YY" (Upsilon Upsilon), the emcees, who may represent a growing segment among Yeshiva's undergraduate population, welcomed their guests with open arms.
In the words of Al Franken - "Oy Oy Oy!"
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