Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
Dine with San Diegan and Israeli students and professors from two MGSDII-funded collaborative research projects. Through the MGSDII, San Diegan and Israeli professors and their classes study in student-to-student and professor-to-professor collaborations. The MGSDII has funded opportunities between SDSU and the Technion, led by Professor Joe Katz, and USD and the Azrieli College of Engineering, […]
Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
The MGSDII is thrilled to announce the Fourth Annual Esther Fischer Emerging Israeli Filmmaker Artist in Residence program. Tal Comay and Ben Ziv, two young, award-winning filmmakers of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (the largest of its kind in the world), will meet students and faculty as they present in university classrooms throughout […]
Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
Register by clicking HERE. Join Charlene Seidle and Haneen Mgadlh for brunch and discussion to get to know six Jerusalemite changemakers in “Voices of Jerusalem,” a series of short films directed by the award-winning team that brought the world State of Jerusalem and other documentary journalism. Through in-depth, highly personal looks at day-to-day life in Jerusalem, these […]
Online registration is now closed for this event. However, tickets are available at the door for $18. The MGSDII looks forward to seeing you tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Museum of Photographic Arts for an exclusive screening of 1341 Frames of Love and War with creator and director, Ran Tal. Reception hosted by the […]
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
Join the MGSDII for a screening and director talk with Yair Qedar. Yair is the creator of the award-winning series The Hebrews Project. Each one-hour film is a poetic biographical documentary about the greatest Hebrew-language authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The project invites major directors to create films that weave biographical narratives, visualizing cinematically […]
SDSU
5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, United States
Join the MGSDII for the San Diego premiere of the award-winning film, Scaffolding, written and directed by Matan Yair. The film is based on his own life experiences and premiered at Cannes in 2017. Read more about the film in the Variety Magazine article HERE. To register, please fill out this form:
Monday, December 5 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Luncheon Hosted at a Private Home Overlooking La Jolla Shores Yuval Gadot, MGSDII Visiting Professor at UCSD, is head of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University and the lead archaeologist at the "City of David." Jerusalem is maybe the most excavated place on […]
Join us as we hear from MGSDII Visiting Professor alumni - leading academics and thought leaders on the ground in Israel. In recent weeks, many Israelis have taken to the streets to protest proposed judicial reforms. Beyond the law itself, the debate has turned into a referendum on the nature of democracy in Israel and […]
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Past MGSDII Visiting Professor and award-winning Filmmaker, Nitzan Gilady debuts his latest film, In Bed (Keilu Ein Mahar), at the 23rd Annual San Diego LGBTQ Film Festival, presented by FilmOut San Diego. Gilady is director/producer of Wedding Doll and the documentary films, Jerusalem Is Proud To Present, In Satmar Custody, and The Last Enemy. His […]
Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
A few days before this event, Israel’s Supreme Court will hear the appeal over the judicial overhaul plan. Join the MGSDII with Visiting Professors Dr. Amos Nadan, Deputy Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, and special guest Dr. Maya Tevet Dayan, Israel’s most famous feminist poet, for […]
