On her first day as president of San Francisco State University, Lynn Mahoney found herself in the middle of a simmering Israel controversy. Mahoney took office the week of July 15, becoming the university’s first female president in a century. Just four days earlier, the Amcha Initiative, a pro-Israel advocacy group that tracks campus anti-Semitism,…
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Education
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Bay Area
Outbreak of anti-Semitic graffiti at Burlingame High School
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Lehrhaus sheds its name, expands mission
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