Reading, Writing, and Rickshaws: Shalem Freshmen Head to India for Unique English Immersion Program
Most immersion programs expect students to communicate solely in the language of study, requiring them to speak, learn, and live in a foreign tongue until it becomes familiar…
A Lesson in Leadership: Dr. Daniel Polisar Teaches Online Course on Theodor Herzl
When asked why he chose Theodor Herzl as the topic of his lectures for the new Tikvah Online Courses series, Dr. Daniel Polisar, executive vice president of Shalem College…
Natan Sharansky Returns to Shalem to Teach Seminar on Democracy, Identity, and the Nation State
With the end of his nearly decade-long tenure as chairman of the Jewish Agency approaching this past August, Natan Sharansky, the renowned Prisoner of Zion, statesman…
AIPAC Veteran Dr. Sharon Goldman Joins Leadership of Shalem College
When Dr. Sharon Goldman, Shalem’s new vice president for strategic initiatives, describes the role Israel has played in her life, she laughs that it sounds…
Shalem has just announced a $1 million gift to the college by Dr. Andrew James Viterbi of San Diego. Viterbi, creator of the Viterbi Algorithm, is the co-founder of Qualcomm Corporation and the presidential chair professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California (USC)’s Viterbi School of Engineering.
While putting together the itinerary for the annual Koret Foundation-sponsored student mission to San Francisco, Shalem Director of Citizenship and Service Gila Rockman squeezed in a visit to 826 Valencia. “The focus of the mission is principally to introduce Shalem students to the richness and unique challenges of the North American Jewish experience,” explained Rockman, “ but I wanted to include a few, innovative projects that weren’t strictly Jewish, but which I thought might get them thinking.”
A Cambridge-bound Master’s degree candidate, the founder of an economic-advocacy startup, and the vice president of a nonprofit working to redefine the role…
When you’re a new recruit in the army, says Shalem junior Shmuel Herenstein, you learn to put up with a lot, even some pretty absurd-seeming…