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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]