[4] In 1950, HUC gained a second campus when it merged with the rival Reform Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR) in New York.

[6] In 1979, HUC moved its New York campus from the original JIR building to 1 West Fourth Street in Greenwich Village.

https://religionnews.com/2025/01/31/jewish-reform-seminary-sells-new-york-city-building-as-consolidation-accelerates/ Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion is an international seminary and graduate school offering a wide variety of academic and professional programs.

[7] The Los Angeles campus runs many of its programs and degrees in cooperation with the neighboring University of Southern California.

[8] Their collaboration includes the creation of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, an interfaith think tank through the partnership of HUC, USC and Omar Foundation.

The 9th president of HUC-JIR, elected in 2014, was Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D. A noted authority on rabbinic and Second Temple literature, with research interests in the historical development of legal concepts and terms, Rabbi Panken was killed in a plane crash on May 5, 2018, while piloting a single-engine Aeronca 7AC over New York's Hudson Valley.

[13] On April 11, 2022,[3] the Board of Governors at HUC voted to shutter the residential rabbinical program in Cincinnati by 2026 due to financial troubles and falling enrollment.

In New York, the program includes professional learning opportunities as a student-cantor, in which students serve congregations within and outside of the NY area.

In 2012 she wrote to Rabbi David Ellenson, HUC's then president, requesting that he address the discrepancy, which she said was "smacking of gender inequality.

It found that students and administration were reluctant to confront professors over repeated incidents of harassment and discrimination, as many of the perpetrators are or were revered scholars in their field, and complaints were often swept under the rug.

Former professors Steven M. Cohen, Michael Cook, and Stephen Passamaneck, Director of Litiurgical Arts and Music Bonia Shur, and former presidents Alfred Gottschalk and Sheldon Zimmerman were reported to be the subject of repeated credible allegations of sexual harassment.

The school's current president and board both stated that they would make teshuvah (repent), work to prevent such incidents, and revise policies for handling misconduct complaints.

[citation needed] The Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles originally housed The Skirball Museum.

The Skirball Cultural Center is independent of HUC, however, both organizations continue to collaborate on select programs and exhibitions.

[33][34] Notable faculty members have included Judah Magnes, who was also the founding chancellor and president of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Leo Baeck, Gerald Bubis, Nelson Glueck, Moses Buttenweiser, Eugene Borowitz, Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Louis Grossmann, Moses Mielziner, Julian Morgenstern, Rabbi Alvin J. Reines, Steven Windmueller, Debbie Friedman, Rachel Adler and Carole B. Balin, as well as Sami Rohr Choicie Award for Jewish Literature and National Jewish Book Award recipient Sarah Bunin Benor.