A few years ago, Simon Blechman discovered that his great-grandparents were Jewish, sparking a journey to Judaism and, now, rabbinical school. The Baltimore City resident is part of Hebrew Union College’s largest rabbinical cohort in more than a decade. He is pursuing his first year of rabbinical school in Jerusalem before beginning classes at HUC’s New York or Los Angeles campus. “Reform Judaism was presented to me as a form of Judaism where you keep what’s meaningful to you in your Judaism, and that Reform Judaism can be pretty much anyone,” Blechman said. “I’m really happy to not feel like that here [at HUC] because we’re all the weird ones,” he joked.