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San Jose State University

Sang Hea Kil
Posted inBay Area

SJSU professor fired over pro-Palestinian activism wants her job back

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 6, 2026January 8, 2026

Updated Jan. 8 Sang Hea Kil, a former professor of justice studies at San Jose State University, is seeking to reverse the university’s decision to fire her over pro-Palestinian activism.  […]

A Day of the Dead altar for Palestinian children killed in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war was on display in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in fall 2024. (Courtesy Shlomit and Yigal Blum)
Posted inBay Area

Group of SJSU faculty lose fight over Day of the Dead altar they called a modern ‘blood libel’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 9, 2025May 11, 2025
Student activists, many wearing kaffiyehs, attend a public negotiation session between San Francisco State University administrators and students who demand that the university divest from companies that do business with Israel on May 6, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Cal State says it won’t divest from Israel over student hunger strike

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
Tower Hall at San Jose State University. (Photo/Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inBay Area

San Jose State professor says she was suspended for pro-Palestinian activism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2024May 31, 2024
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inBay Area

Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
UC Berkeley Chabad co-directors Bracha Leeds (left) and Rabbi Gil Leeds (right) hand out Shabbat supplies to students. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley Chabad)
Posted inNews

How Jewish college orgs are keeping students connected during a pandemic

by Dan Pine September 24, 2020September 25, 2020
Anat Balint is the new coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program at San Jose State University. (Photo/Eyal Tueg)
Posted inEducation

New Jewish studies head at San Jose State embraces ‘culture of debate’

by Dan Pine September 3, 2020
Santa Clara University is one of nine Northern California universities that benefit from the Koret Foundation's latest round of higher education grants. (Photo/Wikimedia-BrokenSphere CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Koret Foundation grants $10 million more to nine Bay Area universities

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2020
Maj.-Gen. Jay Coggan (left), Jewish Navy veteran and commander of the California State Military Reserve, at San Jose State University for the opening of an exhibit on Jewish veterans, March 8, 2020. (MAYA MIRSKY)
Posted inUncategorized

San Jose exhibit gives Jewish veterans overdue recognition

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 11, 2020March 12, 2020
“I’d like Netanyahu to be thrown out. He’s a crook,” Benny Morris said last week. (Wikimedia-Aude CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inBay Area

In Bay Area, candid Israeli historian Benny Morris sounds off on genocide and politics

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 24, 2020February 29, 2020

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