"Facing the Sea, May" by Daniel Tchetchik Facing the Sea is a personal and social project created in collaboration between artist and photographer Daniel Tchetchik and the non-profit organization HaGal Sheli (My Wave). This body of work features portraits of participants from HaGal Sheli's trauma-focused surf therapy programs who were directly affected by the October […]
Photo credit: IJF Media Mozer will offer a sneak peak of his latest documentary feature, Brothers in Blood, which tells the remarkable true story of rival Olympic judokas Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki. Set against the backdrop of the political tensions between Iran and Israel, the film follows their unlikely friendship, personal sacrifices, and pursuit […]
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 […]
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, Lawrence Family JCC Community Event Thursday, May 14, 2020, UCSD Faculty and Student Event There’s no one like Etgar Keret. Beloved and renowned for his surreal, delightful short stories and his Cannes-winning work as a film director, the Israeli writer was just awarded the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious literary honor. […]
Monday, November 25, 2019 | 7:00 pm Lawrence Family JCC Get a behind-the-scenes look at HBO’s hit series, Our Boys, with Shuki Ben-Naim, the series’ screenwriter. Through the use of clips and in a facilitated conversation, audience members will explore the dimensions and dynamics within and beyond Israel that were exposed by both the real-life […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]