HUC Rejects Ohio Lawsuit Over Plan to Close Cincinnati Seminary

Overview

• Hebrew Union College said the Ohio attorney general’s suit misstates its decision-making and stewardship of donor funds as it plans to close its Cincinnati rabbinical programs.
• Local leaders in Cincinnati are developing the College for Contemporary Judaism to train rabbis in the Midwest, citing shrinking non-Orthodox enrollment and seminaries clustered on the coasts.
• A U.S.-brokered 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is now in effect, creating a short window of stability that Jewish groups are using for planning.
• Forty-one U.S. senators urged appropriators to provide $750 million for the 2027 Nonprofit Security Grant Program to protect synagogues and other at-risk sites amid rising threats and hoax bomb scares.
• Israeli and Jewish nonprofits are reworking budgets because the strong shekel makes dollar-denominated donations worth less in Israel, even as security needs stay high and national ceremonies remain scaled back without the usual air force flyover.