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Eleven years ago, Shahid Nadeem witnessed the blasts that left 37 people dead and more than 100 injured in the small town of Malegaon, 167 miles from Mumbai.

Police rounded up nine Muslim men and charged them with the crime. The men were poor and had no lawyers.

“I saw innocent men taken by the police,” Nadeem said. “There was nobody to appear for them.”

The experience inspired Nadeem, then an undergraduate, to become a lawyer. He now works for the nonprofit Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra’s legal arm, which defends wrongfully accused terrorism suspects.

Episcopal Divinity School is planning to move to New York City.

Its leaders are negotiating an affiliation with Union Theological Seminary after EDS ceases granting degrees at its Cam­bridge, Massachusetts, campus at the end of this academic year.

Five centuries ago the Jewish people of Venice were forced to live in a segregated community that became known as the first-ever ghetto, a cramped but bustling community that at its height boasted nine synagogues.

But as the population of Venice has fallen over the years due to mass tourism and spiraling costs, so too have the number of Jewish people.