re Termination of Mark Schlissel as president of The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Times of Israel headlined its coverage “Knish and tell: Ousted U of Michigan president lured subordinate with pastries.”

Under byline of Shira Hanau, the feature opened: “The University of Michigan Board of Regents fired the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, over an alleged relationship he conducted with a subordinate employee at the university. The news was announced Saturday in a letter posted to the university’s website along with a trove of emails and texts between Schlissel and the employee from recent years.

Among those exchanges was a flirtatious email from Schlissel, who is Jewish, to the employee involving a box of knishes he received as a gift. The savory, doughy pastries, which are typically filled with potatoes, are a classic Ashkenazi Jewish food ….

According to the Detroit Jewish News, Schlissel, who had a bar mitzvah but is not religious, became the school’s second Jewish president when he assumed the post in 2014 ….