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 […]
In partnership with the Tel Aviv University Moshe Dayan Center, the MGSDII invites you to join this webinar featuring expert panelists discussing the interconnectivity of Israel, the Palestinians, Iran and Islamic fundamentalism, and the Peace Process Prior and After October 7th.
The 34th Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival will feature the three MGSDII Emerging Israeli Filmmaker award-winning shorts from the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, White Lie by Eyal Elisha, Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor, and Requiem for a Whale by Ido Weisman. Purchase your Film Festival ticket today and receive […]
MGSDII Salon Members are invited to join this special one-time book club event with MGSDII Israeli Visiting Professor, Dr. Dekel Shay Schory. Dekel is a senior editor at Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir, one of the leading publishing houses in Israel and teaches contemporary Israeli Literature at Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University. We will read the Israeli best-seller, […]
Join MGSDII and the Center for Jewish Culture at Tapestry 2.0 on Sunday, April 7th, for a day of experiential learning opportunities, enthralling sessions, immersive learning, and a celebration of all things community, education, and Judaism. MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professors will host separate sessions in their areas of expertise. CLASS BLOCK 1 | 10:15 AM […]
MGSDII Salon members are invited to join us for an in-person conversation with Professors Yoav Alon and Dan Rabinowitz Join us for an opportunity to talk about Israel’s foreign relations, Israeli–Palestinian and Arab relations, and Israel’s domestic politics and societal relations with two visiting professors teaching in San Diego, all of whom were in Israel […]
We invite you to an intimate cocktails and small plates dinner reception to welcome four of the eight 2024-2025 Visiting Israeli Professors. Join us as we introduce Giora Goodman, professor of history; Asa Maron, professor of sociology; Maya Negev, professor of environmental health; and Tom Shoval, award-winning filmmaker. This event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon […]
Thursday, September 19th Doors Open at 6:45pm Screening Begins at 7pm, Followed by Panel of MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professors Join the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative, Impact Cubed, and the Center for Jewish Culture for the San Diego premiere of We Will Dance Again, a harrowing glimpse through the eyes of the individuals who endured […]
June Zero Wednesday, November 20th Doors Open at 6:45pm Screening Begins at 7pm, Followed by a Talk Back with June Zero writer and MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professor, Tom Shoval Join the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative and the Center for Jewish Culture for a special screening of June Zero. This unusual take on Adolf Eichmann’s trial and […]
