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 […]
The MGSDII, in partnership with the Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, hosted two award winning young Israeli short filmmakers (one Jewish and one Arab) for an Artist in Residence program for two weeks in October 2018. The filmmakers, Moshe Rosenthal and Eli Rezik (bios below), participated in master classes at universities throughout San Diego […]
Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
6:00pm | Private Home The MGSDII will offer a rare first look at visiting Israeli filmmaker Moshe Rosenthal’s latest short film, “Our Way Back,” starring Lior Ashkenazi. Hear first hand over wine and lite bites the process to film this masterpiece, as well as the upcoming buzz being talked about as Moshe prepares to screen at […]
5:30pm | Leichtag Commons The MGSDII will host an intimate farm to table dinner party to welcome and introduce the six 2018/2019 visiting Israeli professors. This dinner is for university faculty partners and MGSDII SALONSERIES supporters.
LFJCC
4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
Marik Shtern, MGSDII visiting professor at UCSD is a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, where his field of research is the geography of Jewish-Arab relations in Jerusalem. He specializes in the sphere of community empowerment and strategic consulting for third sector organizations (civil society) in the fields of social and political change […]
LFJCC
4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
A rare opportunity to hear from Moshe Zonder, head writer and director 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 deft work of entertainment but […]
SDSU
5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, United States
12:00-2:00pm | SDSU, Open to the Public | Aztec Student Union Gilad Shtienberg, MGSDII visiting professor at UCSD (2018/2019) will present his findings on long-term climate change in Israel and make comparisons and contrasts to the San Diego landscape. This event is produced in partnership with Green Love, SDSU’s sustainability association. For more information and […]
The Hive at Leichtag Commons
441 Saxony Road, Encinitas, CA, United States
Following a unique art activism trip to Israel this past fall, the MGSDII is excited to bring a touring exhibit of the Jerusalem Biennale to San Diego for the wider community to enjoy. Join Biennale founder, Rami Ozeri and the Leichtag Foundation’s, Chaya Gliboa, as they engage in an intimate exploration into the themes of […]
LFJCC
4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
Archeologist Erez Ben-Yosef, MGSDII visiting professor at UCSD, presents his latest discoveries in Southern Israel. Uncovering a 3,000-year-old fortified trading post, and the copper mining camps it protected, Ben-Yosef and his team thought, “Are these the gates to King Solomon’s mines?” Dating techniques put it squarely in the era of stories from the Bible about […]
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
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 […]