We invite you to an intimate cocktails and small plates dinner reception to welcome three of the seven 2023-2024 Visiting Israeli Professors. Join us as we introduce Uri Bar-on, filmmaker and professor of Film; Amos Nadan, professor of Middle East and African History; and Maya Tevet Dayan, award-winning poet and professor of Poetry. This event […]

Join MGSDII at The 6th Annual Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, featuring shorts created by two MGSDII Israeli emerging filmmakers Saturday, October 14 - Lawrence Family JCC About the films: Parachutist - The film depicts the life of a downtrodden Ethiopian immigrant family through the eyes of the young boy Eli, who tries to […]

Join San Diego’s local literary communities on November 8th at SDSU's Living Writers' Series, one of the longest continuously running series in the nation. Maya Teva Dayan, Israeli poet and writer, is the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature in 2018. She will read poems from her two critically acclaimed poetry collections. […]

Join The MGSDII and The Lawrence Family JCC for the opening kickoff of the Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices 2023-24 Season. Award-winning, local Jewish poets, including Felicia Morgenstern, Maya Tevet Dayan of the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII), and Larry Gach, will read their work. An open mic and a reception to meet the poets will […]

Tuesday, December 5  Hosted at a Private Home in Del Mar Featuring Uri Bar-On, MGSDII Visiting Professor at SDSU  What do you do when a rocket falls on your head? Join The MGSDII for an inside look at the human angle of the “intractable conflict”. Uri Bar-On shares his documentary, “Under the Iron Dome” and […]

In partnership with the Tel Aviv University Moshe Dayan Center, the MGSDII invites you to join this webinar featuring expert panelists discussing the interconnectivity of Israel, the Palestinians, Iran and Islamic fundamentalism, and the Peace Process Prior and After October 7th. 

The 34th Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival will feature the three MGSDII Emerging Israeli Filmmaker award-winning shorts from the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, White Lie by Eyal Elisha, Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor, and Requiem for a Whale by Ido Weisman. Purchase your Film Festival ticket today and receive […]

MGSDII Salon Members are invited to join this special one-time book club event with MGSDII Israeli Visiting Professor, Dr. Dekel Shay Schory. Dekel is a senior editor at Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir, one of the leading publishing houses in Israel and teaches contemporary Israeli Literature at Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University. We will read the Israeli best-seller, […]

Join MGSDII and the Center for Jewish Culture at Tapestry 2.0 on Sunday, April 7th, for a day of experiential learning opportunities, enthralling sessions, immersive learning, and a celebration of all things community, education, and Judaism. MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professors will host separate sessions in their areas of expertise. CLASS BLOCK 1 | 10:15 AM […]