Alumni Event: NYC Midtown Happy Hour
2025-06-26 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Announcing our next event: Happy Hour at American Whiskey. We are excited to celebrate brotherhood and connect fellow ZBTs!
RSVP

When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26.
Where: American Whiskey, 247 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001.
Who: Alumni brothers who live and work in the New York area regardless of generation, alma mater or chapter of initiation.

RSVP: Please help us get a good head count with your response. Brothers are responsible for their own food and drink orders.

Alumni Event: Chicago
2025-07-01 18:30 - 20:30
Games, food and drink at Puttshack Oakbrook, Puttshack, Oakbrook Center 1828, Oak Brook, IL 60523. Moved to July 1 from original June date.

Questions or concerns can be sent to our email, zbtchicagolandalumni@gmail.com

2025 International Convention
2025-07-31 15:00 - 2025-08-02 22:00 | New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
2025 International Convention will be from July 31 to Aug. 2 in New Orleans. This is the Fraternity’s 113th convention and it serves as a time for both education and governance of the Fraternity for the upcoming year. Stay tuned for specific times, locations and activities.
Educational programming at International Convention is made possible in part by the generous support of the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation. Learn how you can support the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation at zbtfoundation.org!

Officer Webinar: Introducing ZBT’s New Brother Experience
2025-08-20 19:30 - 20:30
ZBT is launching a new four-week educational experience for first-semester brothers. As part of a revamp of THE JOURNEY, this onboarding program provides structure, critical education on key Fraternity concepts, and flexibility for local chapter traditions and content. Learn how to implement this program in your chapter starting this fall! Register here.

Advisor Connect: August
2025-08-26 19:30 - 20:30
ZBT International Headquarters will be hosting an advisor connect to provide updates, connect brothers to other advisors, answer any questions and address any concerns. 7:30pm Eastern/4:30pm Pacific start. If you are a Chapter Advisor and interested in joining, contact Jonathan Levin at jlevin@zbtnational.org to receive the Zoom link.

Officer Webinar: Crisis Management Procedures
2025-09-17 19:30 - 20:30
From incidents at social events to protests on campus or allegations of sexual misconduct, chapter leaders MUST know how to respond in times of crisis and where to get expert assistance. Learn about the Fraternity’s Risk Reduction Protocol, universal communication and reporting procedures, and tips for specific situations. Register here.

National Hazing Prevention Week
2025-09-22 - 2025-09-26
National Hazing Prevention Week (NHPW), sponsored by Hazing Prevention Network, is your chance to step up, speak out, and make a difference on campus. Zeta Beta Tau is a Bronze Member of Hazing Prevention Network. Held the last full week of September, NHPW brings students together to raise awareness and take action against hazing. This year’s theme, “Be the leader. Prevent hazing.” highlights how you can create safer, stronger communities through education, advocacy, and awareness.
📢 Join us for a powerful National Hazing Prevention Week webinar with special guest Carol King! Carol is a passionate advocate working to create safe and positive experiences for all students. Don’t miss this chance to learn, reflect, and lead the way in preventing hazing.
🗓 Monday, September 29
⏰ 7:00 PM ET
💡 Chapters with 5 or more brothers attending in full will earn SOE credit.
👉 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/V85cTSpdSoqu-1ZcT7RANg#/registration. You will receive a notification from Zoom when the revised date is scheduled.

Rosh Hashanah
2025-09-22 19:00 - 2025-09-24 19:00
Rosh Hashanah, the new year in the Jewish calendar, is a fall holiday. It is both a time of rejoicing and of serious introspection, celebrating the completion of another year while also taking stock of one’s life. Traditionally, Jews eat sweet foods — like apples and honey — to symbolize a sweet new year. The traditional greeting is Shana tova, meaning “Have a good year,” given during the days from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur.

Advisor Connect: September
2025-09-30 19:30 - 20:30

Yom Kippur
2025-10-01 19:00 - 2025-10-02 19:00
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, when Jews ask forgiveness for the wrongs committed over the past year. Traditionally, Jews fast on this somber day and also refrain from other bodily indulgences. Yom Kippur falls 10 days after Rosh Hashanah and lasts one day. It begins at sundown and concludes at sundown the following day. The fast itself lasts 25 hours.

Sukkot
2025-10-07 - 2025-10-13
This holiday is known as the Festival of Booths. Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew) representing the huts in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after escaping from slavery in Egypt.

Officer Webinar: Working Through Chapter Debt
2025-10-22 19:30 - 20:30
No chapter leader wants to spend time hassling brothers to pay their dues. Unpaid local dues hinder the chapter’s ability to function, and unpaid national dues prevent staff from providing great programs and critical services. Of course, prevention is a major part of the process, but WHEN you find yourself falling behind, what do you do? Learn strategies that work from chapter leaders who have been-there-done-that and learned important lessons. Register here.

Advisor Connect: October
2025-10-28 19:30 - 20:30

Webinar: Why the Genetics of Men's Health Matters
2025-11-05 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
ZBT is hosting a webinar with jscreen, an organization that provides genetic screening which combats different types of cancers and diseases. They have a focus on certain types of diseases that are more prevalent in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
REGISTER

Officer Webinar: SOE 2026: Program Changes & Improvements
2025-11-19 19:30 - 20:30
ZBT’s Standards of Excellence program continues to evolve and improve to highlight the most important indicators of a thriving chapter experience. More changes will roll out in early 2026, and we want your feedback! Join this webinar to hear what’s on the table and share what works and doesn’t for your chapter. Register here.

Advisor Connect: November
2025-11-25 19:30 - 20:30

Hanukkah
2025-12-14 17:00 - 2025-12-22 17:00
Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights. This eight-day holiday celebrates when the Jewish people reclaimed the Holy Temple, having found oil supposed to only last one day that miraculously lasted eight days. Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday from the perspective of Jewish tradition, its importance is often magnified due to its proximity to other major December
celebrations.

Founders Day
2025-12-29
Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity was inspired by Richard J. H. Gottheil, a professor of languages at Columbia University and a leader in the early American Zionist movement. On December 29, 1898, Professor Gottheil gathered a group of Jewish students from several New York City universities to form a Zionist youth society. The society was called Z.B.T. Just more
than 125 years later, Zeta Beta Tau is proud to be the world’s oldest and largest Jewish fraternity.

ZBT History
ZBT Founders

James E. Greer, Jr. President’s Leadership Academy
2026-01-09 17:00 - 2026-01-11 12:00
The James E. Greer, Jr. Presidents’ Leadership Academy is one of the Fraternity’s premiere leadership programs. The program is intended to be an intensive leadership development program that challenges brothers to create positive change in their chapters and communities by equipping them with the necessary tools and skills.
See full program details here.
This program is made possible in part by the generous support of the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation. To learn more about your Foundation, please visit zbtfoundation.org.

Virtual Officer Institute
2026-01-11 17:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
ZBT wants to ensure new officers are set up for success and can their new job well, so early in the year we plan officer education to support chapter leaders.
The Virtual Officers Institute is a REQUIRED officer training program for the following Director roles: Operations, Programming, Finance, Standards, Communications, Brotherhood Development, Risk Prevention & Wellness, and Recruitment. Chapter Advisors should also plan to participate. it is a Standards of Excellence point.
Start time: 5pm Eastern (or: 4pm Central, 3pm Mountain, 2pm Pacific)
REGISTER
Chapter Presidents: VOI does not have a Presidents’ track. The only Chapter Presidents’ education this spring is at the James E. Greer, Jr. Presidents’ Leadership Academy over Jan. 9-11. Register here.

Dover Days: Regional Leadership Institute
2026-01-25
Mentors needed! ZBT is asking alumni to volunteer to speak with current undergraduates — and join ZBT for lunch — at an upcoming undergraduate program in your area.

Atlanta, January 25
Phoenix, January 25
Chicago, February 1
New Jersey, February 1

Additional details can be found here: Dover Days
Alumni
Alumni are welcome to join lunch as a guest of ZBT. However, the Fraternity would appreciate those who are willing to offset the expense of their meal ($36) and/or the cost of an undergraduate lunch. All meals are kosher friendly.
REGISTER
Undergraduates
All chapters and prospective chapters must have at least four brothers at a Dover Day. Two must be on the Executive Board (any role). You may choose the Dover Day date/location that works best for you.
Register in myZBT.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2026-01-27
The United Nations has designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. U.N. member states are urged to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.

Advisor Connect: January
2026-01-27 19:30 - 20:30

Dover Days: Regional Leadership Institute #2
2026-02-01
Mentors needed! ZBT is asking alumni to volunteer to speak with current undergraduates — and join ZBT for lunch — at an upcoming undergraduate program in your area.

Chicago, February 1
New Jersey, February 1

Additional details can be found here: Dover Days
Alumni
Alumni are welcome to join lunch as a guest of ZBT. However, the Fraternity would appreciate those who are willing to offset the expense of their meal ($36) and/or the cost of an undergraduate lunch. All meals are kosher friendly.
REGISTER
Undergraduates
All chapters and prospective chapters must have at least four brothers at a Dover Day. Two must be on the Executive Board (any role). You may choose the Dover Day date/location that works best for you.
Register in myZBT.

Officer Webinar: Reviewing and Signing Contracts
2026-02-11 19:30 - 20:30
Watch out! Contracts can be intimidating for chapter leaders working on leases, event plans, composites and other regular fraternity business. This webinar explains how to read a contract, who can and should sign on behalf of your chapter, red flags and how to protect yourself by asking the right questions.
ZOOM INFO

Advisor Connect: February
2026-02-24 19:30 - 20:30

Dover Days: Regional Leadership Institute
2026-03-01 10:00 - 17:00
Mentors needed! ZBT is asking alumni to volunteer to speak with current undergraduates — and join ZBT for lunch — at an upcoming undergraduate program in your area.

Atlanta, March 1

Additional details can be found here: Dover Days
Alumni
Alumni are welcome to join lunch as a guest of ZBT. However, the Fraternity would appreciate those who are willing to offset the expense of their meal ($36) and/or the cost of an undergraduate lunch. All meals are kosher friendly.
REGISTER
Undergraduates
All chapters and prospective chapters must have at least four brothers at a Dover Day. Two must be on the Executive Board (any role). You may choose the Dover Day date/location that works best for you.
Register in myZBT.

Purim
2026-03-02 18:00 - 2026-03-03 18:00
Purim is a festive celebration of good triumphing over evil, centering around the Jewish people being saved by Queen Esther when the evil Haman wanted to kill all Jews in Persia. Many people dress up in costume. Synagogues and communities hold plays and festivals. Food and gifts abound.

Roger Williams Day
2026-03-22
On March 22 every year, Zeta Beta Tau proudly celebrates the life and legacy of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island who was committed to religious freedom and equality. Williams is a central theologian who was dedicated to the principles of religious freedom and equality for all. ZBT chapters are encouraged to host an educational event such as a panel discussion with different ethnicities and religions, performing community service at a place of worship or bringing a speaker to campus.
Learn more.

Advisor Connect: March
2026-03-31 19:30 - 20:30
