Salon Member Book Club Tuesday, December 2, 2025 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Private Home in La Jolla The votes are in! Join fellow Salon members for an intimate and fun discussion about "The Hebrew Teacher" with Dr. Dekel Shay Schory, Visiting Professor for Fall Semester at SDSU, where she teaches contemporary Israeli literature. RSVP […]
Salon Member Dessert & Discussion The Hostages are Home: What's Next? Israel and the Middle East at a Crossroads: From October 7 to Today and Beyond Monday, November 10, 2025 7:00 PM Private Home in La Jolla RSVP early to ensure you spot. Attendance is limited. This event is only open to Salon Members. […]
We warmly invite you to an intimate dinner reception to meet our Fall 2025 Visiting Professors. Join us as we introduce and hear from journalist Roni Kuban, one of the most prominent documentarists and interviewers in Israel; Professor Tal Elmaliach and Professor Erez Ben-Yosef, leading experts in Modern and Ancient Israel History; and Professor Dekel […]
Hosted at a private home in La Jolla Join us for an intimate discussion with Professor Nehama Lewis about the unique challenges facing Israeli researchers and educators in Israel since 10/7. Dr. Lewis will offer a personal account of her life in Israel during the war, and the ways in which Israeli researchers have persevered […]
We invite you to an intimate happy hour to welcome our Spring Semester 2024-2025 Visiting Israeli Professors. Join us as we introduce Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Judge Rachel Barkai, Dr. Nehama Lewis, Dr. Asa Maron, and Dr. Meir Edrey. This event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon Series Members. Our evening will take place at a Private Home […]
Israel and the American Media with Dr. Giora Goodman Thursday, December 12 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Luncheon Hosted at a Private Home Dr. Giora Goodman lives with his family on a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. He is a faculty member at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, where […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]