JTA — Days after Hebrew Union College graduated its final rabbinical class in Cincinnati, a new Jewish seminary has its eyes on the school’s campus — and wants the state of Ohio to bestow the prize on them.

The College for Contemporary Judaism, which aims to become a new home for liberal rabbinical students in the Midwest, on Thursday added its voice to a lawsuit against HUC brought by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. The state’s suit claims that HUC, the Reform rabbinical school, violated state nonprofit law and misled its donors by shuttering its historic Cincinnati campus this year.

In its motion to intervene, the new college argues that it should be the rightful steward of HUC’s campus, as well as all other Cincinnati assets of the Reform movement mainstay.…