Meshuganahs AZA

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Meshuganahs AZA #2172 of the Big Apple Region is by far the craziest chapter in the Grand Order of the Aleph Zadik Aleph.

Much of the chapter's history was lost up until September of 2002.

What is known is that the chapter was chartered back in 1995, with its original advisor being a man named Marc Cahn. Marc then left the chapter to go start a new chapter in Flushing, Queens, Leviticus AZA, and Meshuganahs' new advisor was a man named Gregg Gordon. After Gregg left to go start a new chapter, Jeff Sipinick became the advisor, until April of 2004 when his job relocated him to Tampa, Florida. After Jeff left, an alumni of Maccabees AZA, Adam Joseph, advised the chapter for the 2004-2005 programming year. Adam then left the chapter to pursue his master's degree. For a few months, Meshuganahs was without an advisor, until Jack Friedman, the advisor of Maccabees AZA, decided to help the chapter rebuild, as it was a dying chapter. After Jack left in January of 2006, a former Regional Aleph Godol, Lawrence Nadel of Haganah AZA in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, became the advisor, and is still with the chapter and is helping it rebuild. Currently the chapter's advisors are past Regional Godol Lawrence Nadel and past BBYO member Jared Weinberg.

For the first time ever on LTI 2004, Meshuganahs AZA won the Regional Spirit Bat, which is the award for the chapter with the most spirit on a particular convention. That same year, as well as the year before, Meshuganahs won the Big Apple Region's Most Improved Chapter of the Year Award.

Four members of Meshuganahs AZA have been elected to the Big Apple Region's Regional Board: Ron Strum (Aleph Shaliach, 2003-2004), Zach Silver (Aleph Shaliach, 2005-2006), Daniel Greene (Aleph Masgiz, 2009-2010), and Logan Miller (Aleph S'gan 2010-2011).

Two members of Meshuganahs AZA have been appointed as Big Apple Regional Board Chairs: Logan Miller (Aleph S'gan 2010) and Jason Brillon (Aleph Moreh 2010)

Currently Meshugnahs AZA has the most members of all of the Big Apple Region AZA chapters and has the best attendance on International Programs such as CLTC, IC, PeP, ILTC, Kallah, and Trek West.

CHAPTER SONG- THE BREWS - NOFX CHAPTER MASCOT - Penguin (?-2008); Yoda (2008-2010)

THE TALLIS SONG- (sung to tune of thong song) Oh that tallis looks scandilous and you know another jew couldnt handle it cause your shaking your thing like your jewish with a look in your eye for gifilta fish we like to dance to the haftorah all the prayers start with baruch ata not just jewish like my pops, cause we are living la vida kosher we got baruch for ata, ta ta, prayer from the to, rah rah, baby move your ya-yamulkah, i think ill davin again.

2000-2001 FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS 2001-2002 FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS

Past Aleph Godolim (Presidents) include:

Ariel Greenberg (2000-2001)S'GAN 1999-2000 Josh Bogaty (2001-2002)S'GAN 2000-2001 Ron Strum (2002-2003) Kyle Reich (2003-2004) Zach Silver (2004-2005) Dan Vallejo (2005-2006) Dan Fine (2006-2007) Daniel Greene (2008-2009) Logan Miller (2009-2010) Joshua Schulman (2010-2011)