Citizenship, Identity Politics and Nation Building: Differences in Holocaust Memory Work Among Jewish-Israeli High School Students -- with Yehuda Goodman Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:00 Dinner (Registration Required) 7:20 Lecture (Free) Congregation Beth El 8660 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92037 --- The Holocaust plays a central role in the grand narrative of the State […]

The MGSDII is proud to fund Israel’s Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) Company’s UCSD student events while they are in San Diego to perform as part of ArtPower’s 2018-2019 season. The performance will take place on campus on February 27, 2019. The following evening, February 28, 2019, EAD will peform at the Balboa Theatre. Tickets are […]

Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz, MGSDII visiting professor at SDSU, is one of the most powerful women in Israeli cinema. She has been a writer on several television series, directed documentaries and also served as a script editor on two series. She is well known in Israel for the drama “A Touch Away” and the documentary, “A Place […]

The MGSDII is proud to host the Fulbright Commission's West Coast Alumni Reception for Fulbright alumni, university faculty, and key community stakeholders. The history of the State of Israel is interwoven with the achievements of the Fulbright program, which has produced one of the most important incubators for Israeli scientists and researchers since the 1950s. […]

The MGSDII is excited for an upcoming symposium pertaining to the project between University of California San Diego Scripps Center for Maritime Archaeology and the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and Colleagues - New Research in Israel, Greece, Puerto Rico and More More details to be […]

This summer, the Kinneret College in Israel is hosting the 35th Annual Meeting of The Association for Israel Studies, June 24-26, 2018. The annual AIS conference is hosted each year by a different academic institution, in collaboration with the AIS Board. The theme of the conference is Images and Realities: Land of Promise to Startup Nation? […]

The MGSDII And The Hive Invite You To An Exclusive San Diego Sneak Preview Of Golda With The Film's Creators, Udi Nir & Sagi Bornstein. Two showings to choose from! Evening Tuesday, August 6, 7:00pm The Hive at Leichtag Commons SOLD OUT - Event has reached capacity. Daytime Wednesday, August 7, 11:30am The Hive at […]

The Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival Featuring short documentaries created by three San Diego emerging filmmakers as part of the Jerusalem Film Workshop Saturday, September 21 & Sunday, September 22, Lawrence Family JCC Selected from a SD county-wide university competition funded by MGSDII, three promising filmmakers traveled to Jerusalem and made a magical documentary […]

CSUSM students and the community will have a rare opportunity to hear from Moshe Zonder, head writer of the first season of Fauda, the first Israeli television series to be released as a Netflix Original. The setting is the flashpoint of a 50 year-long conflict, and Zonder believes that they have made not only a […]

Thursday, September 26, 2019 l 11:30 am Luncheon Private home in La Jolla Hear about the creative process and gain an inside look into the making of Fauda, the first Israeli Netflix Original. You will also be one of the first people to hear about his current project, an Israel-Iran espionage thriller, Tehran. Tehran tells […]