Ofek premiered his films In Between and No. 17 in San Diego at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival and CSUSM for their Fall 2017 MediaMakers Series. In Between tells the story of a marriage between a secular and ultra-orthodox couple. Another one of his popular films, No. 17, tells the story of a bus bombing in Tel Aviv and the search […]
One of Israel’s most active choreographers, Ziv has performed and created work for dance and theater companies in Israel, Europe, and the former Soviet Union since 1999. An experienced teacher, she taught Batsheva – The Youth Ensemble for three years and currently teaches at the Maslool Professional School for Dance in Tel Aviv, a current […]
On January 16th, Tamar Arieli, visiting MGSDII Israeli Professor, accompanied students from University of San Diego’s Masters in Social Innovation on a full day visit to Tijuana. Tamar shared about the similarities and differences between Israel’s borders and those of the U.S. and Mexico. Led by Dr. Everard Meade, Director of the Trans-Border Institute at USD’s […]
San Diego State University, under the guidance of Professor Joseph Katz, and Technion, under the guidance of Professor Gil Yudilevitch and Professor Oded Naveh, cooperated in providing their senior students an aeronautical engineering design capstone project, whereby teams of five students from both schools worked together to develop a proof of concept for an efficient […]
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 […]
