Twenty-three San Diegans joined Biennale founder, Rami Ozeri and were welcomed by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat for a very special week long art tour. This highly curated trip featured visits to the homes of Israeli collectors, artists’ workshops, and a behind the scenes VIP visit to the world-renowned Israel Museum, led by chief curator of […]
For this year’s Sukkot** celebrations, the MGSDII invited the Jerusalem-based artist collective Sala-Manca Group to curate an exhibition, film screening, and artist talk on two of their recent projects. Absentee Landscapes and Eternal Sukkah represented two distinct yet equally inspiring projects that reimagined a quintessential symbol of Jewish culture – the sukkah. This informational exhibition told story […]
Sucary writes in a universal perspective about issues of identity and place. His books deal with meta physical questions, as well as with socio-political question of Oriental Jews in Israel and world-wide. Sucary has received a number of exclusive literature prizes for his work: the Brenner Prize for Hebrew Literature, the Prime Minister Prize for […]
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 […]