Join the MGSDII's Latest Visiting Professor, Gilad Halpern, for a Discussion on Israel's Booming English-Language Media Industry Over the last few decades, the media industry has suffered a tremendous blow. Decline in trust, the collapse of a once-robust business model, and the proliferation of social media have all turned the traditional media into a shadow of […]
The 32nd Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival will feature the two MGSDII Emerging Israeli Filmmaker award winning shorts from the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Shabbat by Tal Comey and Empty Spaces by Ben Ziv. Purchase your Film Festival ticket today and receive a complimentary ticket to hear from the two of […]
Join our partners at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, for a virtual panel with Dr. Biti Roi, Dr. Noam Zadoff and Dr. Andrea Gondos on the history of Kabbalah and mysticism in Israel. Marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Gershom Scholem, the founder of the discipline at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, our panelists […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
