In a country in which higher education has historically emphasized specialization, Shalem College is pursuing a bold alternative: the cultivation of citizens for lives of influence and service, and not merely careers.
After all, Israel isn’t just any country.
The myriad, complex, even existential challenges Israel faces require a generation of leaders, in every area of public life, whose perspectives and positions are informed by the study of the great ideas of the Jewish and Western traditions, and whose character and commitments reflect the principles on which their nation was founded.