On the eve of Tisha B’Av, the Jewish calendar’s annual day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other historic tragedies, Hillel International found itself at the center of a controversy that raises difficult questions about Jewish leadership, institutional accountability, and who speaks for Jewish students at a time of unprecedented campus antisemitism.

This is not simply a story about an amicus brief that was filed and then withdrawn. It is a story about trust.

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