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SUMMARY:Salon Member Book Club\, Facilitated by Visiting Professor Dekel Shay Schory
DESCRIPTION:Salon Member Book Club\nTuesday\, December 2\, 2025 \n10:30 AM – 12:00 PM \nPrivate Home in La Jolla \nThe 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. \nRSVP early to ensure you spot. Attendance is limited. \nThis event is only open to Salon Members.\nNot yet a Salon member? Click here to join.
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-member-book-club-facilitated-by-visiting-professor-dekel-shay-schory/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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SUMMARY:Salon Member Dessert & Discussion: The Hostages are Home: What's Next?
DESCRIPTION:  \nSalon Member Dessert & Discussion\n\nThe Hostages are Home: What’s Next?\nIsrael and the Middle East at a Crossroads:\nFrom October 7 to Today and Beyond\nMonday\, November 10\, 2025 \n7:00 PM \nPrivate Home in La Jolla \nRSVP early to ensure you spot.  Attendance is limited. \nThis event is only open to Salon Members.\nNot yet a Salon Member? Click here to to join.
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-member-dessert-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T180000
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SUMMARY:Salon Series Welcome Reception for Fall 2025 Visiting Israeli Professors
DESCRIPTION:We warmly invite you to an intimate dinner reception to meet our Fall 2025 Visiting Professors. \nJoin 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 Shay Schory\, esteemed editor and literary critic of Israeli graphic and modern literature genres. \nOur evening will take place at a private home in La Jolla. The address will be sent to registrants a few days prior. \nTo RSVP: Please send an email with the names of those attending to Program Manager Hilary Taylor at hilary@mgsdii.org \nNot yet a Salon Member? Click here to join. \n 
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-series-welcome-reception-for-fall-2025-visiting-israeli-professors/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T120000
DTSTAMP:20260423T024445
CREATED:20250620T020254Z
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SUMMARY:Higher Education Under Fire: Salon Series Roundtable with Dr. Nehama Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Hosted at a private home in La Jolla  \nJoin us for an intimate discussion with Professor Nehama Lewis about the unique challenges facing Israeli researchers and educators in Israel since 10/7. \nDr. Lewis will offer a personal account of her life in Israel during the war\, and the ways in which Israeli researchers have persevered in the face of internal and external conflict. She will describe the growing global threat of antisemitism in academia and how this has affected scholarly organizations in Europe and the U.S. She will also share her experiences teaching in San Diego as an MGSDII Visiting Professor for Spring 2025. \nDr.  Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa. Her research focuses on health communication\, persuasion\, and the design and evaluation of strategic communication campaigns to promote health-enhancing behaviors and to reduce the prevalence of risky behaviors. She applies an interdisciplinary and international approach to investigating the effects of information on human behavior through strategic communication campaigns. \nThis event is exclusively for Salon Series Members. Not yet a Salon member? Click here to join! \nTo RSVP\, please fill out this registration form:
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/higher-education-under-fire-salon-series-roundtable-luncheon-with-dr-nehama-lewis/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T100000
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SUMMARY:Salon Series Welcome Reception for Spring 2025 Visiting Israeli Professors
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon Series Members.\nOur evening will take place at a Private Home in Carmel Valley – address to be sent out prior to the event. \n \n  \n
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-series-welcome-reception-for-spring-2025-visiting-israeli-professors/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T030000
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DTSTAMP:20260423T024445
CREATED:20241017T004739Z
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SUMMARY:Israel and the American Media: MGSDII Salon Series Roundtable Luncheon with Dr. Giora Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Israel and the American Media with Dr. Giora Goodman\nThursday\, December 12 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM\nLuncheon Hosted at a Private Home  \nDr. 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 he chairs the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies. \nDr. Goodman is a historian who specializes in the history of Israeli government media relations\, with a special emphasis on Israel’s relationship with the American media. \nHe recently co-authored the book Hollywood and Israel: A History\, published in 2022 by Columbia University Press. \nWe will have a lively discussion about the media\, events for the people who live in Northern Israel and all current events \nThis event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon Series Members. \nTo RSVP\, please fill out this registration form:
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/mgsdii-salon-series-luncheon-with-dr-giora-goodman/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T110000
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SUMMARY:Salon Series Welcome Reception for Fall 2024-2025 Visiting Israeli Professors
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon Series Members. \n \n
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-series-welcome-24-25-professors/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240412T050000
DTSTAMP:20260423T024445
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SUMMARY:Israel After October 7th
DESCRIPTION:MGSDII Salon members are invited to join us for an in-person conversation with\nProfessors Yoav Alon and Dan Rabinowitz \nJoin 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 on October 7th. Going beyond the news of the day\, they will share their expertise as well as their personal experiences of how the October 7th attack and resulting war have profoundly changed Israel and its critical relationships. \nPrivate La Jolla home address will be provided upon your reservation. \nWhat’s a Salon Series Member? With a gift of $1\,000 or more\, Members will gain access to exclusive gatherings like this with Israel’s inspiring thought leaders and artists. \n
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/israel-after-october-7th/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T023000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T040000
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SUMMARY:Book Club Salon with MGSDII Visiting Israeli Professor\, Dr. Dekel Shay Schory
DESCRIPTION:MGSDII Salon Members are invited to join this special one-time book club event with MGSDII Israeli Visiting Professor\, Dr. Dekel Shay Schory. \nDekel 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. \nWe will read the Israeli best-seller\, Stockholm\, an ingeniously plotted dark comedy by Noa Yedlin (Kirkus\, Starred Review) about aging and friendship\, following a tight-knit circle as they attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics. \nRead the book\, then join us as Dekel leads a book club discussion and talks about Israeli literary trends. \nFriday\, March 1 at 10:30 AM. Refreshments will be served. \n Space is very limited.  The event address will be sent out prior to the gathering. \nIsraeli author Noa Yedlin is a bestselling author\, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister’s Literature Award. Her deviously clever black comedy takes on death and the ties that linger. The protagonist\, Avishay\, a front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Economics\, dies eight days before the announcement. Avishay’s four closest friends know the committee won’t award the prize to a dead person\, and they vow to keep his death a secret until the big announcement. Yedlin puts her characters through the wringer with nonstop confrontations\, which are distressing to them and hilarious to the reader. At the same time\, she asks probing questions about the nature of friendship and mortality. \nDr. Dekel Shay Schory\n(Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University)\nThe Gloria and Rod Stone Visiting Professorship\nSDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature \n  \n  \n
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/book-club-salon-dekel/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T130000
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SUMMARY:Salon Series Welcome Reception for 2023-2024 Visiting Israeli Professors
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is exclusively for MGSDII Salon Series Members. \nAt this time\, our event registration is full. Please reach out to paige@mgsdii.org with any questions.
URL:https://mgsdii.org/event/salon-series-welcome-reception-for-2023-2024-visiting-israeli-professors-2/
LOCATION:Private Home
CATEGORIES:Past
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