Past

Update (2/25/2019) - Read the scholarly work of panelist Hon. Rachel Barkai HERE  The symposium was facilitated by MGSDII visiting faculty members Dr. Morad Elsana and Dr.Tamar Arieli, with visiting Israeli Appellate Judge Rachel Barkai and U.S. Federal Judge Barbara McAuliffe. In addition, the lead lawyer for the legal defense of the Sioux Indian Tribe presented. Presented by the California Western School of Law […]

With over 100 community members in attendance, the MGSDII hosted a Book Group Salon with Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen as she discussed her critically acclaimed new novel Waking Lions. The following day, Gundar-Goshen spoke to an audience of 75 SDSU students about writing and fine tuning her craft. Waking Lions offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront […]

Professor Israel (Issi) Doron, Head of the Center for Research and Study of Aging at the University of Haifa, came to San Diego for a lecture series. Doron is Israel’s foremost experts on aging and is known worldwide as the field’s international academic expert. He shared his expertise at the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging Grand Rounds as […]

Gilady premiered his films Wedding Doll and The Last Enemy in San Diego at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival and UCSD for their inaugural Middle East Film Festival. Wedding Doll tells the story of Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental deficiency, who works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcee who gave up her […]

Israeli author Ruby Namdar gave a UCSD presentation and discussed his book The Ruined House, winner of Israel’s biggest literary award (the Sapir Prize). The Ruined House is a fascinating novel about the overwhelming presence of myth and historical trauma in our lives. A cross between Saul Bellow’s disintegrating intellectuals and Bulgakov’s mystical revelations, this is a fiercely […]

The MGSDII sponsored a screening of the film Hotel Everest at CSUSM to over 300 students. The film explores a literal hotel on the border of Israel and Palestine. The hotel sits at one of the very few locations between Israel and Palestine where members of both communities are able to interact with one another. In the […]

The MGSDII, in partnership with the Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, hosted two award winning young Israeli short filmmakers (one Jewish and one Arab) for an Artist in Residence program for two weeks in October 2018. The filmmakers, Moshe Rosenthal and Eli Rezik (bios below), participated in master classes at universities throughout San Diego […]

6:00pm | Private Home The MGSDII will offer a rare first look at visiting Israeli filmmaker Moshe Rosenthal’s latest short film, “Our Way Back,” starring Lior Ashkenazi. Hear first hand over wine and lite bites the process to film this masterpiece, as well as the upcoming buzz being talked about as Moshe prepares to screen at […]

5:30pm | Leichtag Commons The MGSDII will host an intimate farm to table dinner party to welcome and introduce the six 2018/2019 visiting Israeli professors. This dinner is for university faculty partners and MGSDII SALONSERIES supporters.

Marik Shtern, MGSDII visiting professor at UCSD is a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, where his field of research is the geography of Jewish-Arab relations in Jerusalem. He specializes in the sphere of community empowerment and strategic consulting for third sector organizations (civil society) in the fields of social and political change […]