JL;DR SUMMARY In the wake of Hebrew Union College's (HUC) closure of its Cincinnati campus, a new institution, the College for Contemporary Judaism (CCJ), is vying for control of the campus and other assets, claiming it is better suited to continue the mission of ordaining liberal rabbis in the Midwest. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.